#french-rail-strikes

#french-rail-strikes

Corentin Roudaut, who once felt overwhelmed by Paris's traffic, found renewed confidence in cycling after the establishment of a segregated bike lane on Boulevard Voltaire. He now actively participates in promoting cycling in the city, witnessing a remarkable transformation in urban mobility and safety over the last decade.

"Bank holidays are also among the least busy times on the railway, and the four-day period at Easter gives us a valuable opportunity to complete projects that simply can't be delivered during a normal weekend."

Red line services will be partially suspended between the Red Cow and Tallaght/Saggart on Saturday, Easter Sunday, and Easter Monday due to engineering works. Trams will operate between The Point/Connolly and the Red Cow, with replacement bus services running every 15 minutes in affected areas.

Christophe Barthes, the mayor of Carcassonne, stated, 'Out with the European flags at the town hall! Make way for the French flags,' as he shared footage of removing the EU flag.

We are living in an increasingly racist society. I mean a form of racism that is more overt and almost completely unchecked.

Rape survivor turned feminist campaigner Gisèle Pelicot, along with her daughter Caroline Darian, led the march in Paris, saying: "We will never give up". Her daughter added: "I am very honoured to be here with my mother, who gives a real message of hope to all victims in France."

Many bus, trams and underground services in Germany will not be operating on Monday amid a nationwide strike by the trade union Verdi. Millions of employees and schoolchildren who rely on public transport will be forced to find alternative methods of getting to work or school, with wintry weather conditions adding to their problems. All 16 German states bar one, Lower Saxony, where employees have agreed not to strike for now, are to be initially affected by the industrial action, Verdi said.

The demonstration gathered at the shelter in the northeast of the capital where the man, El Hacen Diarra, 35, had been living and in front of which he was violently arrested by police on the night of January 14th. Video filmed by neighbours, shared on social media, showed a policeman punching what appears to be a man on the ground as another officer stands by and watches.

El Hacen Diarra, 35, encountered police late on Wednesday as he was drinking a coffee outside the migrant dorms where he lived, his older brother Ibrahima said on Sunday. "He had come to France to earn a living, now he's gone forever," he told hundreds of supporters at a memorial, after his sibling died in custody in the night of Wednesday to Thursday.

Dozens of protesters rallied in Paris on Wednesday against US President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown, voicing horror and fear after a second fatal shooting by immigration agents capped months of escalating violence. "F**k ICE, shut it down, in every city, every town," demonstrators chanted as they bundled up against the cold at a protest in central Paris organised by pro-democracy groups Indivisibles and La Digue.