Day 195 - 04 Dec 95 - Page 64
1
2 Q. Apart from the two all night closes, there is no reference
3 to any close ending at 3 or 4 in the morning?
4 A. Yes, and these ones, the ones that I have recorded,
5 there are not.
6
7 Q. But you are so precise about your figures, you see? Why is
8 there no I reference to a 3 or 4 o'clock close? The reason
9 is, Mr. Alimi, that it did not happen, did it?
10 A. I would say it happened regularly, yes.
11
12 Q. And your ----
13 A. I am not -- as I said, these are why I have put them
14 down, the reason I have put down the precise time is
15 basically random. It has nothing to do with lateness or
16 earliness of the close.
17
18 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Can I understand what you are saying? Are
19 you saying that on some of the days where you have put CL
20 it would have been 3 or 4 a.m. but have not put 3 or 4
21 a.m.?
22 A. It could be.
23
24 Q. Or are you saying that 3 or 4 a.m. just did not happen to
25 occur in this three-month period?
26 A. It could very well have been. I could not say for
27 sure, but it could have very well been that those closes
28 were late closes and I did put them down.
29
30 Q. You just left CL there?
31 A. I just left CL.
32
33 MR. RAMPTON: Why, Mr. Alimi, when you were so careful about the
34 other ones, precise times, 12.06, 8.18, 12.23? It is not
35 true, is it?
36 A. I happened to be precise on those nights. It is very
37 difficult to say now, but when you have just finished work
38 after something like a 9, 10-hour shift and a very short
39 break, very little to eat, you are usually under too much
40 pressure and too much stress to bother writing down your
41 diary, and by the next day you may completely forget about
42 it. So what I would say is that those times that I have put
43 down are the times, I just happened to remember to put them
44 down and the rest of them I just did not, I did not
45 remember to put it down.
46
47 Q. You left McDonald's I think in the end of August 1987, did
48 you not?
49 A. Yes, I do not know -- I left in August, yes. I do not
50 exactly when.
51
52 Q. When did you hear about the Transnationals publications
53 "Working for Big Mac"?
54 A. About a couple of months after I left I would say.
55
56 Q. Did you see the article in the Guardian when that came out?
57 A. Yes, a very short article.
58
59 Q. You went straight to them and said: "I think I can help
60 you. I have got some dirt to spill about McDonald's"?
