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Added on the 16/12/2019 10:35:43 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Cars are bumper to bumper on the A63 motorway near Bordeaux, as July and August holiday goers cross paths on the way to their vacations on what Bison Futé labels 'black Saturday'. More than 1,000 kilometres of cumulative traffic jams are recorded for this day of crossover. IMAGES
French national railways (SNCF) employees work on the railway tracks at Croisilles (Pas-de-Calais) following the attack on the SNCF network hours before the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games. IMAGES
French farmers are beginning to dismantle their campsite on the A6 motorway at Chilly-Mazarin, in Paris southern suburbs. Farmers' largest unions FNSEA and Young Farmers have called for the blockades to be lifted following the new measures announced by the government. 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