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NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS | June 18, 2021 | PAGE 5
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Factory owner hires hit man in plot to take out union representative
The owner worried that the union
activist would destroy the “family
spirit” at the company.
A plastics executive and her hus-
band were jailed in France May
6, accused of offering €75,000 to
have a vocally pro-union em-
ployee assassinated.
The plot took place in Oyon-
nax, a heavily industrial region 10
miles from the Swiss border
where plastics manufacturers are
concentrated. For 30 years,
Muriel Millet, 54, served as the
general manager of Apnyl, a fam-
ily-owned plastics processing
company in Izernore, France,
with about 100 employees.
According to French news me-
dia, she grew annoyed when a
52-year-old mechanic at the com-
pany—a representative of the
union CGT—became an enthusi-
astic supporter of France’s “yel-
low vest” protest movement. He
frequently attended yellow vest
protests against government pro-
posals to hike gas taxes while cut-
ting taxes on the rich.
While skiiing in early 2020
Millet met former journalist
Frédéric Vaglio socially. Vaglio,
who was part of a criminal syn-
dicate, represented himself to her
as a security professional. When
Vaglio visited her office to pitch
his company’s security services,
IN MEMORIAM
Washington State Building and
Construction Trades Council is
mourning
the death of
its former
executive
secretary
Dave John-
son. Johnson
died May 26
at age 65.
Johnson was
Dave Johnson
a member of
Ironworkers Local 114 in
Tacoma and Local 86 in Tukwila.
As top officer of the Washing-
ton Building Trades, he coordi-
nated the political and legislative
efforts of Washington’s construc-
tion unions. He fought for legis-
lation to create opportunities for
apprentices on public works proj-
ects, and worked to pass funding
for transportation and capital in-
frastructure.
Funeral services will be held
11:30 a.m. July 2, 2021, at Moun-
tain View Funeral Home, 4100
Steilacoom Blvd SW, Lakewood,
Washington.
Millet complained about the
union leader and said she’d like
him to “disappear.” Vaglio said
he could make that happen. Two
weeks later, by phone, she
agreed to pay €75,000 for a
“training, audit and elimination”
package, to be paid via invoices
from four companies owned by
the gangster.
The assassination plan al-
legedly fizzled when the hit man
conducted surveillance and had
second thoughts upon learning
that the target was a married fa-
ther of young children. The assas-
sin was later arrested in July 2020
for involvement in a separate
contract murder plot, a hit on a
business coach put out by a rival
business coach. In a search, po-
lice found surveillance files on
the union leader, and the would-
be assassins confessed. Two sol-
diers working with the French
equivalent of the CIA were also
arrested as part of the criminal
group.
Incredibly, Millet told French
police that she feared the union
rep would destroy the company’s
“family spirit.” Her husband Ger-
ard was also arrested, said to have
known about the plot without try-
ing to stop it.
In a French language press re-
lease, the union called for stiff
sentence and said it “will not be
intimidated in this class war.”
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