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Although the Polish-born Jean-Pierre Stobiecka, a former metalworker Arbel Industry CFDT union made permanent, had never set foot in Poland. "I did not speak the language, knew nothing about the country. "As a good union, Jean-Pierre Stobiecka had still interested in what's playing with Solidarity. His first trip in the early 80's, he remembers the difficulty, beyond the delivery of packages, to meet on-site union Solidarnosc. "It was in Katowice. For a first date, I was taken to a Zup, I did not know where I was. It was night. I finally able to meet one of the leaders of Solidarity. Before, we had walked for an hour and a half in a park to check it was not followed. " Punishment befell Poland, sending men to prison, killing minors. "It was the wall of silence. People were hungry for information. They wanted to know how their movement and resistance were seen in the West, in France. "
Here to fill trucks bound for Poland, activists organize collections in the cities, businesses, neighborhoods. Pharmacists are required. They give medicines, and even after a dentist's chair to be conveyed. The time for petitions and demonstrations in front of the consulate of Poland soon gave way to more concrete. "One day, it has seen a Polish activist who said:" it is the small but you must know the situation there with imprisoned activists and families who have lost their livelihood, nothing . Neither salary or benefits because the power has pulled the plug. That's when we decided to organize convoys, "recalls Michel Eymar, while permanent CFDT in Dunkirk (1).
At the time, Julien Delaby was the regional secretary of the CFDT. He also went to Poland to try to meet with activists of Solidarity.
"We had one week to go after! We had gone to sign a cooperation agreement between the CFDT and Solidarity. We went to go visit postponed postponed. In the south, the mountains, in a villa. "
Returned by the police
Jean-Pierre Stobiecka Czarnecki and Jeannette, who was many trips as an interpreter, they eventually meet the one they believe to be their contact. "In fact, he was a former trade union that was returned by the secret police." Shortly before the December 13, 1981, when General Jaruzelski establishes martial law, is to invest the city with tanks and armored vehicles, set up a curfew, reduced civil rights and prohibits strikes, "Walesa came in September 1981 in Lens, "said Julien Delaby. "There was a mass of the car Bollaert, a huge tent filled with Poles. Journalists tell us they have just learned that President Kania had to resign and that all contacts with foreign countries were blocked. We went home to try to call Poland. Impossible. This is by journalists that Jaruzelski was told that already had decided to liquidate Solidarnosc. Walesa went back faster than expected. " The beginnings of black that will last years, punctuated by a solidarity between the region and there that will not fade.
In 1988, Pascal Percq, then north to flash reporter, on assignment from Poland. "In Katowice, there was received by a committee of Solidarity in a rectory. It was impressive. People were not called by name. When to use proper names, they were written on paper. They were persuaded to be monitored. " One night he went to sleep in a metallo "whose pleasure was to blow up with dynamite the statue of Lenin, every month! "Memories ... He is interviewed in the brochure prepared for the ARHOS (Regional Association for the labor history and labor) by Regis Verley: 1981-1993, a shared history Read on page 4, the point of view of Lech Walesa and the Arab Spring events in Russia.
