As the holiday season begins, how is the world’s number one holiday destination coping after a week’s unrest?
As the summer holiday season begins, France has been grappling with a climate of social unrest.
On 27 June, a 17-year-old boy was shot dead by a police officer in the Paris suburb of Nanterre. Anger soon spread across the country. But how is France’s tourism industry coping?
“I have never been scared like that before in France”
“I heard firecrackers, it sounded like gunshots”, explains Catherine Cuchet, a French expat who lives in Greece.
On Saturday afternoon (1 July) she was out shopping in the southeastern city of Lyon when tension began to mount. ‘‘I
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