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POLICY – Fake news or “confusion”? For the CGT, the deputy LREM Lionel Causse propagated a false information by affirming that cuts of electricity linked to the strike movement against pension reform had penalized a hospital in Dax. What the complainant disputes.
Asked this Friday, December 27, about the restoration of the current by the CGT Energy in Vienna, the deputy of the Landes estimated that it was “much better than cutting the current as they did for example in the hospital of Dax fifteen days ago”.
“There were exams that were postponed as a result because people did not want to take responsibility for starting certain operations, certain examinations, when you are on a security generator,” he said. -he declares on franceinfo.
Except that, as the hospital management interviewed by FranceBleu Gascogne as well as the energy union, these cuts never happened.
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Denouncing slanderous and deceitful remarks, the CGT “demanded a denial as public as its announcement, in order to re-establish the truth.” “The accusations of Mr. Causse are very serious. It’s completely unfounded, ”added Elisabeth Lasserre, the union’s general secretary at Dax hospital. “It is simply to dismantle the CGT in the midst of a pension reform,” she said, while public opinion remains divided on the continuation of the strike during the Christmas period.
A “confusion” between Dax and Béziers
Contacted by the news channel, Lionel Causse nevertheless maintained his remarks … while affirming that he had mentioned an episode dating from two years ago. “This is not a fake news since it dates from 2017. If people understood that it was this year, yes I apologize,” he said.
In December 2017, the geriatric service at Dax hospital was indeed disrupted by a power cut when the CGT called for a day of action and mobilization. Complaint for “endangering the life of others” had moreover been deposited by the health establishment.
“What I was talking about was the kind of behavior and cuts that could happen that caused big problems for citizens. It didn’t happen this year at DAX but it did happen in other cities, ”said Lionel Causse.
In the evening, deputy LREM then published on his social networks a press release in which he spoke of “confusion” between Dax and Béziers hospitals, where a power outage took place on December 12, 2019.
“I consider all actions aimed at voluntarily cutting off the supply of electricity to be irresponsible,” adds Lionel Causse.
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