Between 100 and 200 metallurgists invested in calm the buildings of the direction of the factory ArcelorMittal de Florange (the Moselle), Monday around 8 a.m. Answering the call of an inter-union CFDT-CGT-FO-CFE/CGC, the workmen, for the majority helmeted, entered the offices to the cries of Mittal, one wants work. , before going in the upper floors, whose head office was absent. The metallurgists then settled with their flags and their numbers chamarrés in the big room of the site committee. Today, Florange is in us, Florange is with you, shouted a trade unionist under the vivas of his comrades. The State saved Lejaby. It must intervene for us Today, we are the Masters on board and the direction will return only when the market allows it, increased Edouard Martin, CFDT member of the Central committee of company, promising at least an action per week until May 6, date of the second round of the presidential election. We will remain in these offices as long as the blast furnaces of the factory will not have started again, still affirms the CFDT person in charge. The State saved Lejaby. It must intervene for us, continued the person in charge FO, Walter Broccoli. Around 10 a.m., the protesters were comfortably installed in the administrative buildings of the site native of the Moselle region where the coffee machines boiled and where the sandwiches were made. On the shone upon square, the trade union officials connected the interviews with the television channels of which one, NHK, had sent a team of Japan. At the end of the morning, tents started to be drawn up on the lawns of the factory to officialize the occupation, explained Jean Mangin, responsible CGT. It will be the village of resistance, where the workmen will be able to come to speak, to be expressed on their fight and to defend their work tools, he added. In an official statement published in Paris, the direction of ArcelorMittal France said to want to believe that the reason will override actions which are likely to prevent a constructive social dialogue. To become the nightmare of this government the passage to the action had been decided last Thursday, at the time of a general meeting of the inter-union CGT-CFDT-FO-CFE/CGC, to which assisted 800 paid, subcontractors and temporary of the steel-works native of the Moselle region. The inter-union one had also invited the Luxembourg and Belgian steelmakers to take part in a demonstration on February 29 in Metz, within the one day of action old framework European of the metallurgy. Thursday, Edouard Martin (CFDT) had required that Nicolas Sarkozy intervene so that work begins again with the steel-works. If it is ravelled, he had launched, I guaranteed to you that as from the next week and from here at May 6 (date of the 2nd tower of presidential, note), Florange will be the nightmare of the government.  According to the Echoes of Monday, the trade unions do not exclude from other operations aiming at the State and the European commission. We will not be the Greeks of the French iron and steel industry, and Florange will become the nightmare of this government, promise the metal-workers Lorraine, quoted by the economic daily newspaper on its site. The factory employs 5.000 people, including 3.000 in TDCI. For the trade unions, the decision not to give on the way the liquid die to Florange announces a programmed death of the site. ArcelorMittal, which recently decided the permanent closure of blast furnaces in Liege (Belgium) and Madrid (Spain), ensures that it does not act, in Lorraine, that of a deactivation temporary made necessary by an insufficient request.