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Latest update : 2015-06-23
Train service between France and Britain has been suspended, Eurotunnel officials said Tuesday, after protesting French sailors entered the tracks and torched tyres to block access to nearby roads. Ferry services have also been halted.

"We have been notified that protesters have gained access to rail tracks, which means that for safety reasons Eurotunnel have to temporarily suspend their service," the firm said in a statement. Police broke up a sit-in on the A16 motorway leading up to the Channel Tunnel. Two protesters were hospitalised in the operation.

Demonstrators burned tyres and crates, sending thick black smoke into the air as traffic jams stretched several kilometres.
The sailors, from the French ferry company MyFerryLink, were protesting plans to sell two of their ferries to rival firm DFDS.

"It's out of the question that DFDS takes our boats. Never, never," exclaimed the head of the main union on strike, Eric Vercoutre, who took up position with around 100 colleagues at the entrance to the tunnel in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
"We've been betrayed," he said."


Some angry workers, in France, take direct action against their employers and cause havoc to the Channel Tunnel.