Children Pen Letter to Macron, Urging Action on Casino Group’s Future

A special letter addressed to Emmanuel Macron. It comes from Amine and Yasmine. The idea of writing this correspondence comes from the former. The future of Casino is often the subject of family conversations. While a meeting of employees with Economy Minister Bruno Lemaire is soon to take place to discuss the issue, Amine expresses the wish to meet the President of the Republic, reports Francebleu. On the advice of his mother Abiba, an employee at Casino for 24 years and who works at the group’s headquarters in Saint-Étienne, the 8-year-old boy decides to address a correspondence to Emmanuel Macron, a meeting with the president not being an easy thing.

Yasmine, who lives in Amiens and whose father is a co-worker of Abida, approves the approach. Together, the two children write the letter. "The two of them, for a week, made several drafts, crossed out, started over, etc.," says Amine’s mother. In this correspondence, the two children ask the President of the Republic to save the company where their parents work. It is not just the employment of their parents that concerns them. They are very attached to Casino, the closure of which would make them lose certain benefits.

The group often offers gifts and activities for family members, Abida points out. "Last year," she recounts, "there were children who were able to spend a day with the AS Saint-Étienne team, a whole day with the official bus that came to pick them up at the headquarters. My sons were part of it. For them, Casino is all these advantages that may disappear, at least in the eyes of my son. For him, it’s something that bothers him. He says he won’t see mom’s office, the colleagues, that there won’t be any more Christmas at Casino."

"Please save Casino for our parents and for us," plead Amine and Yasmine. The deputy of the Loire, Quentin Bataillon, assures that he has transmitted their letter directly to Emmanuel Macron last week. And to add: "I know he was able to consult it and that the approach touched him".