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French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal pays his first visit to the armed forces at Lyon Mont-Verdun air base 942. IMAGES
A day after 91 people were arrested for trespassing, French police are checking vehicles at the entrance to Rungis wholesale food market, a vital distribution hub for the capital region's 12 million people. French farmers' anger continues unabated, and the crisis is taking centre stage at a European summit to be attended by French President Emmanuel Macron. IMAGES
A convoy of protesting farmers on their way to the wholesale Rungis market, south of Paris -- a key food distribution hub for the capital, was blocked by police at Sully-sur-Loire, in north-central France. IMAGES
"The Prime Minister claimed that he was meeting us to prepare a general policy speech, but instead we got the impression that he was preparing a programme of general suffering," says Manuel Bompard Gabriel, far-left France Unbowed (LFI) MP for Bouches-du-Rhone, denouncing a "huge increase in the cost of living" as France Unbowed MPs were met in Matignon by Gabriel Attal. IMAGES
French Transportation Minister Clément Beaune says national railway strikes during the Christmas holiday season aren’t "inevitable," as employees of rail operator SNCF are on strike this weekend. SOUNDBITE
At the end of the first day of trial, Mila, a young French woman who was harassed after a controversial video on Islam went viral, says "fear is changing sides". IMAGES
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