Poster shows tower in tricolour flag as French employees of cladding firm refuse to appear at inquiry

Survivors of the Grenfell disaster have tried to shame the French government into delivering key witnesses to the public inquiry using a truck-mounted poster outside the country’s embassy in London showing the burnt-out tower at the heart of the tricolour flag.

The stunt on Monday came as Grenfell United delivered a letter to the French ambassador to the UK, Catherine Colonna, calling on the French government to publicly urge three former employees of a French cladding company implicated in the fire to give evidence.

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