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Added on the 19/04/2016 06:16:31 - Copyright : Reuters EN
Hundreds of flights are cancelled at French airports despite the country's main air traffic controllers' union dropping a call for a one-day strike after making a deal for higher pay. IMAGES
Civil servants in Paris turn out in low numners to march in an attempt to wrest pay rises from the French government despite a tight budgetary situation. IMAGES
French police has stopped a farmers' convoy of hundreds tractors heading towards the Rungis wholesale food market south of Paris. Some 200 to 300 tractors are now sitting in the town of Sully-sur-Loire, 170 km south of Rungis. Setting off from the south-west of France at the call of union Coordination rurale, the group of angry farmers grew as they drove up the nation, with more and more joining along the way. IMAGES
With their tractors and haystack-filled tipper lorries stationed on A6 motorway, French farmers are facing a police roadblock as they near Rungis, the world's second largest wholesale food market, just south of Paris. IMAGES
Police and gendarmerie vehicles, including armored vehicles, set up at one of the main entrances to the Rungis market, just as the main farmers' unions had announced their intention to lead a "siege of the capital for an indefinite period". On Sunday, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin asked police officers to set up "a major defensive operation" to prevent farmers "from entering Paris". IMAGES
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