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Several hundred people demonstrated Monday, March 13 in Caudry, in the North, where the activity of the Buitoni factory has been suspended since the beginning of the month. Employees fear a permanent closure of the site, made infamous by the contaminated pizza scandal.
They remained silent for months, overwhelmed by the health scandal that affected their factory. Employees of the Buitoni site in Caudry (Nord) now want to save their jobs. Shut down since the beginning of the month and threatened with permanent closure, the factory has between 100 and 200 employees. “The group is responsible, but not the workers. We have always done our job as best we could, we have always respected the protocols and the rules of hygiene.highlights a protester.
Government puts pressure on Nestlé
The Caudry site, which had partially reopened in December, notably produced pizzas from the Fraich’Up range, contaminated in 2022 by the E. Coli bacterium, and accused of having poisoned around fifty people, including two children who found the death. Monday, March 13, the Minister of Industry, Roland Lescure, met the leaders of Nestlé, owners of the Buitoni group. The member of the government gave 15 days to Nestlé executives to come back with concrete solutions to preserve jobs.
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