FRANCE – Trucks, vans used to block Paris roads to protest cancelled Champs-Élysées Christmas fair

Several dozen fair workers on Monday staged a go-slow on main roads around Paris, heavily disrupting traffic as they protested the city’s decision to cancel the annual Christmas fair on the famed Champs-Élysées avenue. Drivers of trucks and vans gathered at dawn for the “operation escargot” go-slow on roads leading to and from the capital. By…