Amazon’s warehouse plans keep being ruined by French campaigners


Stop Amazon Briec’s activists display a banner that reads, ‘Macron had given your region to Amazon’, at La Pointe du Raz in Plogoff, western France on March 24, 2022, to protest against the Amazon warehouse that is planning to open soon in Briec. During the past six months, four large logistics hubs in France have been either blocked by tribunals or abandoned due to local opposition on ecological, economical or political grounds. — AFP

Campaigners are successfully winning support in French courts to block Amazon.com Inc’s plans to construct distribution facilities in the country.

During the past six months, four large logistics hubs in France have been either blocked by tribunals or abandoned due to local opposition on ecological, economical or political grounds.

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