They are Threatening to Dump Acid in the Meuse
Ils menacent de verser de l’acide dans la Meuse
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Well, this is where I feel like a French learner rather than a teacher. Apparently, the factory of Lenoir-et-Mernier at Bogny-sur-Meuse has closed down. I believe that the company has resources elsewhere, but am not positive about that.
Anyway, the workers feel that they have been cheated by the bosses, and when they complained to the tribunal commercial (Commercial Court), their complaint was rejected. They want money, but for now they’ll settle for a mediator. (Whether they would abide by his decision is another question.)
So, back to the headline. If a mediator isn’t appointed by the end of the day on Friday (which is today, I believe), they will dump 30,000 liters of hydrochloric acid into the Meuse River.
Since the French government doesn’t seem to be prepared to deal with this, a Belgian mayor is going over to talk with the people, to try to talk them out of it.
I suppose the rather messy follow-through on the French Revolution has made the French people kind of squishy on dealing with home-grown terrorism of this sort, but I would hope that in a sane world these people would now be subject to some pretty serious criminal charges based solely on their threat, and unrelated to their seizure of the factory, etc. Of course, even the United States isn’t sane, and the european powers, crippled beneath a half-century of socialism, can’t be expected to rise to this occasion.
It is encouraging to see the anonymous feedback at LeSoir seems to be relatively sane.
