UIMM: settling of accounts in court

Family members still tearing each other apart, but the secrecy has been preserved. Against the backdrop of the case withdrawals suspected cases of the Union of Industries and metal trades (UIMM), several big names of French employers have opposed Monday afternoon before the seventeenth chamber Tribunal de Grande Instance de Paris, meeting in its calendar. In the game of "who knew what?", Each branch of the family stayed on its positions. And the trial, sometimes taking the form of an unsuccessful mediation hearing family, mainly determined to silence inflexible Denis Gautier-Sauvagnac on the destination of the secret funds of the UIMM.

"They were given financial assistance to organizations through morally impeccable. I do not want to be the informer, "said DGS Monday, looking calm planted in front of me William Bourdon, lawyer Laurence Parisot. "The practice did not go against the ethics and lasted for a hundred years. I do not think it is of interest to reveal. "

Laurence Parisot, current president of Medef, was assigned in March 2008 for defamation Dewavrin Daniel, president of the UIMM 1999 and 2006. It was then to say that Laurence Parisot was "fully aware" of the system in place hidden in the UIMM. The boss of bosses had criticized "these men of the old guard of the UIMM," as "sacred liars." Passes of arms between the two sides had scored a weekend in the spring of 2008, and followed the revelation by the weekly magazine Marianne of colossal bonus - 1.5 million, reduced by half after the controversy - given to Denis Gautier-Sauvagnac by UIMM.

"These are things that we did not talk easily"

At the hearing, Laurence Parisot is present face magistrates Like his opponent, Daniel Dewavrin, who was called as a witness Denis Gautier-Sauvagnac, the first dozen indicted in the currently investigated for abuse of trust in the financial center. Laurence Parisot, which repeats at the helm have taken note of the "system" of the UIMM until 25 September 2007 from a reading of Figaro, denounced "violence to (its) image in (his) credibility and substance to (his) honor. The words covered by the subpoena had been kept by France Inter Dewavrin.

Faced with the president of Medef, the "gentlemen" of the UIMM stress over the hearing of the existence of an interview on 14 June 2007, Laurence Parisot, Denis Gautier-Sauvagnac, on the sidelines of meetings management. The president of Medef confirms the existence of the meeting but denied the content DGS was then reported to Daniel Dewavrin and his predecessor Arnaud Leenhardt. "The president asked me the UIMM continues its payments in cash? Says DGS. I replied, smiling: no, of course. Ms. Parisot concluded: "I see that you continue!" Denis Gautier-Sauvagnac justifies extremely terse exchange of the fact that "these are things that we did not speak easily."

This episode

have actually been invented, warns Laurence Parisot regrets that we want "to subsume it into the system" as she did as the only requirements that "clarity and ethics." The former leader of the UIMM, which all ties with Medef have now been cut, Laurence Parisot claims one euro in damages. The verdict will be delivered on March 2. On leaving the hearing, the number one employers added this comment: "I found that these gentlemen had not changed."