Workers at a failed French car parts supplier are threatening to blow up their factory unless the company's two biggest clients – Renault and PSA Peugeot Citro?n – stump up extra compensation.
Employees of the engine parts maker New Fabris have rigged up a series of gas canisters inside a factory workshop, which they say will be detonated on July 31 if the two car makers fail to pay €30,000 ($42,000) to each of the 366 workers facing unemployment.
The company, which went into receivership for the second time in two years last month, holds an estimated €2m of stock ordered by the two carmakers, as well as a machine belonging to Renault valued at about €2m.