Strikers against the rising retirement age in France have further secured fuel blockades after the French government authorized the use of a special intervention force on Wednesday.
The strikers have affected all 12 French mainland refineries and one in four fuel stations has run dry, said BBC.
Authorities have been deployed in western and southern cities in France to manage the chaos over the retirement age that will be voted on later this week by the upper house of the French legislature to raise the retirement age from 60 to 62 and the full state pension age from 65 to 67. The fuel blockades have been accompanied by car and garbage can fires, as well as the arresting of several young people, reported Le Monde.
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