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This is just the latest of their comments. Here is an article from earlier this month: http://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20200416-amazon-close-french-dis...

The relevant part:

> The company said the closure would affect “millions of clients who use our services to have products delivered to their homes during this confinement period” as well as "employees and small and medium sized businesses" that use the company.

Regarding inspection of other companies, please refer to my answer to js4ever in the same thread.

EDIT : also, "others do just as bad" is never a good defense.

This is the responsibility of the DIRECCTE, which handle inspections.

They've been asked by the ministry of work to intensify their inspections during the covid-19 crisis, and they've notified 42 companies they should put themselves in conformity (this is the first step before any legal action to give companies an opportunity to avoid problems, which Amazon ignored).

So all the other companies who did not got problems during their inspection had better safety measures than amazon.

Source [fr] : http://idf.direccte.gouv.fr/Inspection-du-travail-elargissem...

Translated: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%...

Note that what courts are blaming Amazon for is not to deliver unnecessary goods, but to not care enough for the security of their employees in their warehouses.

So basically, it's not a problem for other delivery services who took stricter safety measures.

If anything, telling them they can still continue deliver necessary goods is a bit lax, because their employees are not safer processing those.

The Amazon answer is quite unbearable, to be honest. Basically, it's "people can't live without us, so we should be above the law". It's time to show them we can live without them.