Protesters blocked roads, set blazes and were met with volleys of police tear gas on Wednesday in Paris and elsewhere in France, as they sought to heap pressure on President Emmanuel Macron by attempting to give his new prime minister a baptism of fire. (PICS/ AFP)
Updated On: 2025-09-10 05:26 PM IST
Compiled by : Anushree Gaikwad
Although falling short of its self-declared intention to 'Block Everything,' the protest movement that started online and gathered steam over the summer caused widespread hot spots of disruption, defying an exceptional deployment of 80,000 police who broke up barricades and swiftly made arrests
Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau said a bus was set on fire in the western city of Rennes and that damage to a power line blocked trains on a line in the southwest
He alleged that protesters were attempting to create "a climate of insurrection"
The unrest also spread to rail transport, with state-owned SNCF reporting disruptions on TER regional and Intercites services due to "two malicious acts" overnight
Damage to cables between Marmande and Agen in the Lot-et-Garonne region disrupted services between Bordeaux and Toulouse, while another incident near Toulouse also interrupted traffic. High-speed TGV trains remained unaffected
High-speed TGV trains remained unaffected
