‘Black Tuesday’ as France grapples with taxi, aviation strikes


Anti-riots policemen arrive as taxi drivers block the traffic during a demonstration against the VTC (transport vehicle with chauffeur) on January 26, 2016 on the ringroad (peripherique) at porte Maillot in Paris. - AFP

PARIS, Jan 26, 2016 (AFP) - Tempers flared in Paris as striking taxi drivers blocked key roads and set fire to tyres on a "black Tuesday" that saw simultaneous strikes by air traffic controllers, civil servants, hospital workers and teachers.

At Orly airport, one protester was injured in the leg when a shuttle bus forced its way through a blockade. Police said the bus driver was arrested.

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