The strike at several refineries and fuel warehouses in France, in protest against the increase in the retirement age, affects around 40% of the gas stations in the Paris region, according to the press.
The strike, at a time when the price of crude oil is rising and a few days before the Easter holidays, mainly affects the Parisian region, the most populous in the country, but the effects extend to other areas such as Tours or Marseille .
Updated data from the newspaper Le Figaro reveals that around 10.5% of French service stations have some kind of supply problem.
The strike at two refineries in the capital (the one in Port-Jérôme-Gravenchon, owned by Esso-ExxonMobil, and the one in Gonfreville-L’Orcher, owned by TotalEnergies) caused a partial lack of fuel.
Another protest has been called for Thursday, April 13, affecting trains, planes, public transport and garbage collection in Paris, just days after a three-week strike that left the streets of the French capital littered with accumulated garbage was called off.
The new strike is scheduled for the eve of the Constitutional Council, the main French administrative body, with the aim of considering the validation of the new pension law that increases the minimum retirement age from 62 to 64 years.
Source: TSF
