Près de 200 travailleurs sont morts dans deux incendies d’usine au Pakistan.
►http://www.lemonde.fr/asie-pacifique/article/2012/09/12/au-moins-63-morts-dans-l-incendie-d-une-usine-a-karachi_1758851_3216.html
Dans l’usine de Karachi, où 166 travailleurs sont morts, le NY Times signale :
panicked workers, including men and women, were trapped inside the multistory building which had just one exit. All the other doors had been locked, a common practice to ensure that workers do not leave the premises before their shift ends.
►http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/13/world/asia/hundreds-die-in-factory-fires-in-pakistan.html
Impossible de ne pas faire le lien avec l’incendie qui avait ravagé une usine à New York, le 25 mars 1911, faisant 146 morts :
Because the managers had locked the doors to the stairwells and exits – a common practice at the time to prevent pilferage and unauthorized breaks – many of the workers who could not escape the burning building jumped from the eighth, ninth, and tenth floors to the streets below.
►http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_Shirtwaist_Factory_fire
A New-York, les patrons avaient été acquittés.
