The protest continues against the pension reform. Incidents erupted Tuesday in front of the oil depot of Fos-sur-Mer, near Marseille, where the authorities proceeded to the first requisitions of personnel on strike against the reform. With injured on the side of the police. This depot supplies the PACA region, the east of Occitanie with fuel, as well as the Lyon region.
Nearly 54% of Bouches-du-Rhône service stations lacked a type of fuel, and 41% ran dry on Tuesday, according to public data analyzed by AFP. Faced with the worsening of gasoline supply tensions in the Bouches-du-Rhône, eleven service stations in the department will be requisitioned from Wednesday to Friday morning, to exclusively ensure the supply of certain “priority” vehicles, announced the prefecture. from police.
“These service stations (…) are requisitioned for a period of 48 hours from Wednesday at 6 a.m., for the purpose of supplying fuel to vehicles for priority professions”, can we read in a decree published Tuesday evening. Among the priority professions listed are vehicles for health professionals, emergency services, funeral operators, CPAM-approved taxis, road transport of goods, collective passenger transport or home meal delivery services.
Limited fuel sales
This decision therefore goes further than those taken in other departments where only dedicated “priority queues” for easier access to the pumps have been put in place in recent days.
The shortages particularly affect Gard and Vaucluse, where the prefectures have decided to limit fuel sales until Thursday inclusive. At the national level, around 12% of service stations in France are out of petrol or diesel and 6% run out. In the three TotalEnergies refineries, of the 298 operators posted on Tuesday morning, 36% are on strike, according to management.
In Donges, the police unblocked this oil terminal in the Loire estuary overnight, which has been occupied for a week by strikers. In Le Havre, all the access bridges to the industrial zone and the port have been blocked.
The Vern-sur-Seiche oil depot, near Rennes, was unblocked by the gendarmes this Wednesday morning. It had been blocked since March 20 by around fifty CGT and FO demonstrators, according to an FO official. The Lorient oil depot (Morbihan) was unblocked by the police at the end of the morning. In the Lyon region, the TotalEnergies refinery in Feyzin (Rhône) has stopped shipments. At the La Mède biorefinery (Bouches-du-Rhône), shipments are blocked, according to TotalEnergies.