Taxis, schools, airports …: images Tuesday of a “black” social anger – Le Figaro

SCAN THE BUSINESS / IN PICTURES – taxi drivers, teachers, hospital personnel, police officers, air traffic controllers, farmers … In Paris, Bordeaux, Marseille, Lyon, strikes have been very followed on Tuesday in France. Back to the highlights of the day

Drivers of taxis, air traffic controllers, teachers and other striking employees. France was hit Tuesday by a series of social movements disparate claims. The manifestations of taxis, opposed to competition transport car with driver (VTC), resulted in several incidents. Twenty-two people were arrested in the Paris region, while one protester was injured, hit by a vehicle at Orly airport (south of Paris). In large cities, such as Toulouse (southwest), Marseille, Aix-en-Provence (south) and Lille (north), the movement has caused disruption, especially around airports and train stations.

While condemning the violence “unacceptable”, the Prime Minister Manuel Valls, who received the representatives of taxi midday, proposed the appointment of a mediator and amplification controls to “ensure the conditions fair competition “between taxis and VTC. Insufissant, believe taxi drivers who remain mobilized at this time.

The taxi strike coincided today with a call to demonstrate for the purchasing power sent to some 5.6 million officials subject to a rigorous regime since July 2010. A hundred events took place throughout France. In the procession also included teachers, mobilized against the reform of colleges (for students 11 to 15 years), but also to their purchasing power. Employees Social Security and some private hospital and community sectors such as child welfare, have also joined the movement, as well as air traffic controllers. Besides the decline in purchasing power, officials of the unions denounce “the loss of jobs in key sectors of the public service”.

In addition, agirculteurs continue their protests. On Tuesday, farmers from all sectors, led in the Massif Central a series of punch actions and announced new protests on Wednesday to denounce the persistence of crises which they are victims. Traffic should be extremely difficult on Wednesday on the main road West, farmers have planned a new day of dams to “shout their distress” before a panel at the Prefecture of the Brittany region.