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The first month of 2020 was marked by strike movements against the pension reform. (© MD / News Seine-Saint-Denis)
From Monday 28 to Thursday 31 December 2020, News Seine-Saint-Denis offers you a retrospective of the year in the department. A year necessarily marked by the Covid-19, but also several news items, strikes, but also great stories and unusual information.
First episode (out of four) with the first three months of the year. While distant echoes from China spoke of a new unknown virus in France, several strikes struck the Seine-Saint-Denis. At the same time, the Auchan store in Villetaneuse closed, the first trains of line 14 were unveiled and the municipal election campaign was in full swing.
JANUARY 2020: a month marked by strike action
-> Strike at RATP and SNCF. Difficult to find a metro line to leave Seine-Saint-Denis
Monday January 6, 2020 marked the 33rd day of strike action RATP and at the SNCF and that also rhyme with the 33rd day of galley for the users. And for the inhabitants of Seine-Saint-Denis, the situation is starting to be difficult.
The metro lines that connect Seine-Saint-Denis to Paris have practically all been cut off since the start of the strike.
-> Les Misérables, films by Ladj Ly, will represent France well at the Oscars
The decision fell on Monday 13 January 2020. The film Les Misérables, directed by Ladj Ly, will represent France well in the next Oscars, ceremony which will take place in Los Angeles on February 9, 2020.
Tour to Clichy-sous-Bois and Montfermeil, the feature film will compete in the best foreign film category with La Communion (Poland), Honeyland (Macedonia), Pain and Glory (Spain) and Parasite (South Korea).
-> Dumpster fired for a photo: a new job in Seine-Saint-Denis?
The story of the housekeeper from Villemomble, which was photographed while dozing on his working hours, could end positively. The latter contested his dismissal, arguing that he was on break at the material time.
An elected representative of Bondy put him in touch with an employer so that he could get a new job. Indeed, the maintenance agent, employee of the company Derichebourg, had been fired after being pinned on Twitter for dozing off during his working hours.
-> Coronavirus in Seine-Saint-Denis: false rumors circulate via false articles
On social networks, rumors have only swelled since Tuesday, January 28, 2020. False articles are circulating, in particular on Snapchat, confirming the presence of several cases of people with the coronavirus.
The most recent, an article in Le Parisien which explains the presence of a case in Bondy. This article is false and cannot be found on the official website of the newspaper.
-> Closure of Auchan in Villetaneuse: the mayor tries to move the file forward
Auchan has definitively closed its doors, in Villetaneuse. Indeed, the Spacia group, owner of the shopping mall, has asserted its right of pre-emption. This closure was a blow for the municipality as well as for the inhabitants who used to be in this store.
FEBRUARY 2020: the end of the municipal elections campaign under pressure
-> VIDEOS. Explosion and fire of a RATP bus in Bobigny: no injuries
Monday February 3, 2020, a bus from the RATP, line 147, and a truck exploded on national road 3, at the height of Bobigny, avenue de Paris. The RATP services confirmed that there were no injuries, “the passengers and the driver of the bus left at the first fumes of smoke”.
-> Extension of metro line 14 in Saint-Ouen: arrival of trains and first tests
First stage of the Nouveau Grand Paris automatic metro, the extension of line 14 from Saint-Lazare to Saint-Ouen Town Hall has for priority objective to de-saturate metro line 13.
Since the end of 2019, the first trains intended to test traffic on the extension of the metro line 14, in Saint-Ouen, arrive.
-> Pension reform. The strike of the lawyers of Seine-Saint-Denis continues, the court in slow motion
For the third consecutive week, the lawyers of the Seine-Saint-Denis bar are on strike against the pension reform. The court of Bobigny idle. They are protesting against the pension reform which would undermine their autonomous regime.
-> Municipal in 2020 in Seine-Saint-Denis: complaints, defamation … an end of the campaign under pressure
The first round of municipal elections takes place Sunday, March 15, 2020 and the end of the campaign, between the candidates of Seine-Saint-Denis, is very tense. To believe that all low blows are allowed between the candidates who dream of winning the town hall of their city.
Tearing up posters, defamation on social networks, complaints filed, defamatory leaflets….
-> Coronavirus: the Seine-Saint-Denis department is taking precautionary measures
No case of Coronavirus Covid-19 in Seine-Saint-Denis and yet the Department unveiled, Wednesday February 26, 2020, precautionary measures. The first measure concerns the display in all establishments receiving ARS instructions from the public, and in particular nurseries and maternal child protection centers (PMI).
MARCH 2020: the Covid-19 in everyone’s mind and all the news
-> Coronavirus in Seine-Saint-Denis: two cases identified in the department
After Oise, Haute-Savoie or Nantes, two new cases of coronavirus were identified in Seine-Saint-Denis, Sunday March 1, 2020. The infected people would be a father and his 12-year-old child, inhabitants Montreuil.
-> A fire in a building in Sevran kills two
Friday March 6, 2020, two people perished in a fire, rue du Hameau in Sevran. According to the municipality, the fire is of accidental origin. According to the first elements of the investigation, the fire would have started in a building at the back of the garden, behind a main house.
-> #StayAtHomeChallenge. Young footballers from Drancy and Red Star FC take up the challenge
Containment can also bring nice things. Since Tuesday, March 17, 2020, social networks have seen a new challenge bloom: #StayAtHomeChallenge. Dedicated to footballers, this consists of performing as many juggles as possible… with a roll of toilet paper! And in Seine-Saint-Denis, footballers are not left out.
-> Coronavirus in Seine-Saint-Denis: the security manager of the O’Parinor center dies of Covid-19
Alain Siekappen Kemayou was well known in Aulnay-sous-Bois and Blanc-Mesnil. He was responsible for the security of the O’Parinor shopping center in Aulnay-sous-Bois. He died of the Covid-19 coronavirus.
-> Coronavirus in Seine-Saint-Denis: 28,800 stolen masks found in a warehouse in Aubervilliers
In this period of the Covid-19 coronavirus health crisis, protective masks have become a rare commodity. Everyone lacks it, especially caregivers, whether in town or in health establishments.
Several trafficking of masks have been discovered in France in recent days and this is the case in Aubervilliers, this week. Police found more than 28,800 masks in a warehouse.
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