Trade union blocks fuel depot supplying airports

Trade unions in the south of France have blocked a major fuel depot supplying both civil and military airports including one used by NATO, the powerful union CGT said on Wednesday.

Trade unions in the south of France have blocked a major fuel depot supplying both civil and military airports including one used by NATO, the powerful union CGT said on Wednesday.

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The Trapil depot, which was blocked by tens of strikers overnight, supplies kerosene to the civilian airports of Marseille, Nice and Lyon as well as the military bases of Orange, des Milles and Salon-de-Provence.

"The police chief has already warned us that he would use the public authority to clear us out," CGT union representative Rachid Mehdi told Reuters.