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Operation "dead city" this Tuesday morning in Lyon.
After the use of article 49-3 on the pension reform and the rejection of motions of censure, the unions blocked several strategic points of entry into the agglomeration, causing major traffic jams.
Some 150 union activists and yellow vests thus cut off traffic in the early morning on the urban boulevard M6-M7.
Dislodged by the police, they then reached Perrache station, where some descended on the tracks to obstruct rail traffic.
They then tried to return to the urban boulevard but were prevented from doing so by the police.
At the other end of the metropolis, a filter dam has also been set up at the Cusset exit of the Laurent Bonnevay ring road, in Villeurbanne, again causing slowdowns there until 9:30 a.m.
Barely further south, a dozen demonstrators were towing in the Vinatier sector.
Refinery and nuclear power plant blocked
They were also around twenty present near the Feyzin refinery this Tuesday morning, without blocking the roads.
Inside the site, shipments are still blocked, indicates a FO delegate, Jeff Vapillon, to
Figaro
.
"The tanks are filling up and we should soon have to stop production
," says the trade unionist.
As for the Bugey nuclear power plant, located about forty kilometers east of Lyon and which supplies the metropolis, it is also blocked by employees opposing the pension reform, according to AFP.
Between 300 and 400 strikers out of the 1,200 employees and 600 subcontractors on the site only let the on-call staff through for security activities.
Blocking actions which are added to the occupation of the museum of fine arts by cultural employees since the end of the weekend.
And intervene after several evenings of violence in the city center of Lyon, where the town hall of the 4th arrondissement had been ransacked on Saturday evening.
The emergency services had to put out a fire.
Monday evening, 500 people gathered again at Place Guichard, in the 3rd arrondissement, before wandering around the city (closely followed by the police).
Damage was committed and a police officer injured according to the prefecture.
Nine people were arrested in addition to 17 on Sunday, 36 on Saturday and four on Friday, when the central town hall was stoned by demonstrators breaking about forty windows.
