Strikers cut power to the Olympic village and the Stade de France in Paris

Strikers cut power to the Stade de France stadium and some of the construction work on the Olympic village for the 2024 Games in the northern Paris suburb of Saint-Denis, union members said on Thursday.

About ten operators in the electricity and gas sector have left the offices that control the electricity supply in the area.

They told reporters they also cut power to three data centers in Saint-Denis and all shopping malls around the Stade de France.

The halt is part of ongoing industrial action triggered by government plans to reduce the retirement age by two years to 64, said Frederic Probel, general secretary of trade union federation CGT Energie.

“We promised a week of darkness in the energy sector, and it was a week of darkness,” Probel told a crowd of about 300 workers in Bagneux, also on the outskirts of Paris.

Strikes that began on Tuesday also disrupted fuel deliveries.

Source: Terra

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