PARIS - France's rejection yesterday paralyzed by demonstrations . Reform activities in various sectors including education, both land and air transport were paralyzed.
The strike in more than 200 cities have been prepared to face the decision of pension reform. A number of oil refineries are not operating during the week and hundreds of fueling stations (gas stations) do not get a supply of fuel.
In a sign of the impact of the strike, about 1,500 gas stations in some French supermarkets have run out of stock. About 4,500 than 12,500 retail outlets in France stands near shopping centers and supply 60% of fuel they use French road users.
Half flights to and from Paris Orly airport and 30% of flights at Roissy-Charles de Gaulle and several airports in France were canceled due to the strike yesterday.
Yesterday, just six days of national strikes took place in France. The strike was also accompanied by street protests as did the number of truck drivers. The truckers staged a go slow on the highway near Paris and other cities.
The drivers also blocked access to a supply depot for goods and joined the officers blocked the fuel depot gas stations to defend their right to retire at the age of 60 years.
"The goal is to show that we are able to move people and blocked the main artery," said Didier Bonte CFDT union leader, whose members staged a quiet road on the A1 motorway from Lille to the north.
Demonstration not only do the workers, high school students of 261 schools closed or are deliberately excluded joined in this action.
Ministry of the Interior declared the demonstration in some places turned into chaos. Police have arrested as many as 29 teenagers.
The students who march in Nanterre, Paris suburbs, burning tires and spread burning cars, smashing telephone box and threw various objects at police.
Similar demonstrations that led to chaos also occurs in other cities, such as Lyon. Five police officers were injured in different incidents yesterday's demo in France.
During the action took place, mounting garbage in the streets of Marseille because the garbage collector officers also joined the strike. Although activities in the country's troubled society, a poll conducted on Monday, October 18 showed 71% of citizens support a strike that has lasted nearly a week.
Do not want to impact the demonstration area, the French government established a team to deal with the impact of a strike. French President Nicolas Sarkozy has ordered a number of key ministers in the cabinet formed a special team with the task to ensure the availability of fuel oil.
Sarkozy has asked three cabinet departments to coordinate and ensure the oil supply running smoothly.
The third department is the Department of the Interior, Department of Economics, and Department of Energy and the Environment. Head of French oil company's industry association, Jean-Louis Schilansky said the scarcity of fuel is currently at a crisis stage.
"If the oil tank drivers on strike and blockaded the entrance to the refinery, has only been able to say we face the problem.we are not yet in the situation," he said.
Meanwhile, Sarkozy will still be rolling the pension reform package despite getting rejection through strike action. Sarkozy has expressed its commitment when it strikes the effects increasingly felt in Prancis.Sarkozy's reforms are very important for France and he was determined to bill (bill) of this pension reform.
Reform of pension laws was unlikely to be decided on Wednesday as previously scheduled. It is probable that the draft law will also be back until the weekend.
Earlier the French Government proposes to roll back the retirement age from the general retirement age before 60 years to 62 years and full pension from a previous state 65 to 67. This proposal is opposed by a number of left-wing senators and the public.
For the people of France, the retirement age of 60 years is feared to erode their quality of life. Meanwhile, for the younger generation, extension of retirement age means that employment opportunities for young people decreased. Opposition Socialist Party again criticized Sarkozy and Prime Minister Fillon Francoius because it failed to hold a dialogue of reform.
"We have a prime minister who thinks he is (Winston) Churchill, but actually he is just (Margaret) Thatcher," said a party member, Harlem Desir, referring to the two leaders of wartime Britain and the British Conservative prime minister.
"He's trying to make us feel he's doing great reforms to save our econoni, but in fact he even our social model."
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