Road blockades sprang up in dozens of locations throughout France, notably near the airport in Marseille, at wholesale markets in Toulouse and Lille, the Tancarville bridge over the river Seine in Normandy, the A7 motorway south of Lyon and the A6 motorway south of Paris - though some of these were later reported to have been dismantled.

BBC: French blockades herald travel chaos

Flying at subsonic speed, the needle-nosed jet flew without passengers on Saturday from a military air base in Istres, near Marseille, and landed at Paris' Orly Airport.

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