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Truckers Blockade Paris as More Protests Are Planned Across France
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After a first action on Saturday in Isère, drivers are mobilizing this Monday morning in Ile-de-France. The demonstrations could spread to other regions in the coming days.
Truckers blockade Paris as more protests are planned across France
Around 200 lorries were set to stage a go-slow protest on the Paris ring road on Monday morning, with the French hauliers' association saying that further action is planned in their ongoing protest over fuel prices.
In the face of rising fuel prices, which are difficult to absorb for some professionals by means of aid deemed insufficient, drivers and coaches are demonstrating in Île-de-France this Monday, March 30th. Follow the latest information. - EN DIRECT - Fuel prices: start of the snail operation on the Paris ring road (Economie).
Some 110 buses and 70 trucks must take part in a snail operation, which could slow the traffic of the Paris ring road between 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. in protest against the government's response to the increase in fuel, on the backdrop of war in the Middle East.
Despite the aid announced by the government on Friday, trucks and coaches will slow traffic this Monday morning in Île-de-France to warn about their situation.
The buses and trucks are expected to carry out a "snail" operation on the peripheral boulevard between 10 a.m. and 12 p.m. They have been demonstrating against rising fuel prices since the beginning of the war in Iran.
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