VAL-DE-REUIL, Eure (Reuters) - Francois Hollande said on Saturday that the French state was alongside employees Petroplus and that everything would be done to find a buyer for the Petit Couronne refinery (Seine-Maritime) .
The refinery, which employs about 500 people, was placed in receivership after the bankruptcy of the Swiss group Petroplus. The date of submission of tenders for a resumption of the refinery was set to 5 February by the court commerce.
The President of the Republic, on the sidelines of a trip to Louviers, agreed to meet a delegation of employees of Petit-Couronne in Val-de-Reuil, in Normandy, accompanied by the Minister of Productive Recovery, Arnaud Montebourg and that of Foreign Affairs, Laurent Fabius, former member of Seine-Maritime.
"We have a duty to do everything possible to find a buyer in the best conditions," said François Hollande to the press after arrival to meet with representatives of salariés.
"The government is on their side and I wanted to tell them that even if I can not do anything as definitive promise (...) it depends very much on the existence and strength of the buyer," he added saying hope that recovery solution emerges date prévue.
The Head of State went to greet the fifty activists, and many onlookers who came to meet him. "It's been over a year since we are fighting for our jobs, not to have better conditions for dismissal," he told reporters Yvon Scornet, spokesman of the Inter. "We will not die quietly" .
with Marc Parrad Elizabeth Pineau, edited by Danielle Rouquié
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