The month of May 2021 in the rearview mirror of Infos Dijon: from the May Day demonstration to the passage of the Patrouille de France above Chenôve.

On May 1, 2,200 people demonstrate in the streets of Dijon. This is the first large-scale protest demonstration for two years. Wearing a protective mask is required. An inter-union CGT-FO-FSU-Solidaires-UNEF-UNL calls for a “feast of struggles”, in particular the intermittents of the entered spectacle, and asks for the withdrawals of the reforms of unemployment insurance (finally in application) and of pensions ( still suspended to this day) (find our report).

On May 3, the prefect of Côte-d’Or, Fabien Sudry, visited the slaughterhouse of Châtillon-sur-Seine where, with France Relance, the State provided 44,000 euros out of the 200,000 euros invested to perpetuate jobs (100,000 euros being matched by the municipality and the rest by the company where breeders participate in the round table). In 2021, the slaughterhouse activity is expected to be around 990 tonnes for a turnover of more than 600,000 euros (read our article).

On May 4, Orange and the Métropole de Dijon will demonstrate the digital uses made possible by the deployment of 5G. The first two cities covered are Dijon and Chenôve. Around thirty branches will cover the whole of the metropolis by spring 2022 (read our article).

On May 15, Julien Odoul (RN) treated in Chenôve with a triple objective of supporting the candidates of the National Rally in the canton, the candidates from the list he leads in the regional elections and Marine Le Pen at the national level. The RN will have no elected to the Department and on Julien Odoul’s list will make 23.78% on June 27, or 18 out of 100 seats in the new regional council.

On May 18, Gilles Platret (LR) presents his Côte-d’Or running mate in the middle of the Beaune vines. The list for the regional elections rocked but held. An agreement with Debout La France, an insider of the FN of former members, caused the departure of the list of elected LR and UDI close to François Sauvadet. The alliance LR, UDI, New center, Conservative movement, Oser la France and the independent environmental movement will obtain 24.23% in the second round and 18 seats out of 100 in the new regional council of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.

On May 18, after the saliva tests for schoolchildren, the rectorate of the Dijon academy supplied secondary schools with self-tests to encourage students over 15 to get tested as part of the fight against the epidemic. of Covid-19. Symbolically, the rector Nathalie Albert-Moretti hands a box of self-tests to David Tran, principal of the Charles de Gaulle international high school.

On May 19, deconfinement took place gradually with the reopening of the terraces of bars and restaurants at 50% as well as cinemas. Film buffs slip back into dark rooms to see films whose screening path had been interrupted.

On May 20, the court of Dijon pronounces the release of Frédéric Vuillaume, FO trade unionist and famous yellow vest of Besançon. Frédéric Vuillaume being prosecuted for a “crime of assembling”, Amnesty International warned about the “criminalization of demonstrators” (read our article).

On May 20, the state and the prosecution of the Dijon court signed an integrated security contract with the municipality. Each year, 4.8 million euros will be mobilized to provide additional resources in terms of prevention, deterrence, sanction and reparation (read our article).

On May 25, the Patrouille de France flew over the Le Chapitre college in Chenôve, which took part in the Defense and Global Security classes. The Alpha Jets made two runs as students and teachers in the college yard (read our article).

On May 26, the Dijon Bourgogne CHU presents its new helicopter, an Airbus H145 T2 intended for patient transport implemented by the SAMU 21-58. It can shine throughout Burgundy-Franche-Comté (read our article).

On May 27, Florence Parly, Minister of the Armed Forces, and Jean-Michel Banquer, Minister of National Education, are traveling to Chenôve and Dijon to meet the students of the Defense and Global Security classes of the Collège le Chapitre then the soldiers of the center Zenith vaccination program.

On May 28, MEP Yannick Jadot (EELV), future environmental candidate for the 2022 presidential election, visits the Recyclade in Dijon and supports Stéphanie Modde – then recovering from a road accident – which leads the list of the ecological pole to the regional elections. In the second round, the list will merge with that of Marie-Guite Dufay and six environmentalists will enter the new regional council of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.