On Friday, 25 February 1972, Overney and other activists were distributing pamphlets to the workers as they entered and left the gates.
On 1 March 1972, in response to the murder, a group of activists set fire to the cars in the Renault depot.
On 8 March 1972, the Maoist organization Nouvelle résistance populaire [fr] kidnapped Robert Nogrette.
[1] 200,000 attended Overney's funeral,[2] including Jean-Paul Sartre and Michel Foucault.
Following his release from prison on 23 March 1977, Tramoni was killed by the Maoist group Armed Nuclei for Popular Autonomy[3][4] French singer Dominique Grange dedicated a song named Pierrot est tombé to Pierre Overney.