France is dealing with a day of gridlock as a grassroots movement to ‘block everything’ threatens to paralyse the country’s transport networks and create havoc for commuters and tourists in the country.
The demonstrations, branded Bloquons Tout (‘let’s block everything’), are part of a nationwide strike against the now ex-Prime Minister François Bayrou’s proposed austerity plan – action that will continue even after his fragile minority government collapsed this week.
