A Striking EdF EmployeeEdF Strikers Cut Power To French Homes -- Times Online
At an electricity substation on a bleak industrial estate north of Paris a masked union militant is preparing to deprive a neighbourhood of power.
His colleague is outside, dragging nervously on a roll-up cigarette while keeping a lookout for police or security guards. “Get a move on,” he says. “And then let’s get out of here.”
A switch is pulled down, the door of the sabotaged transformer is locked and the two activists — employees of EdF, the French state electricity supplier — drive off.
In their wake hundreds of houses and a handful of businesses in Montigny-lès-Cormeilles are left without electricity for much of the morning.
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My Comment: Like almost all heavily controlled government economies in the world .... a breaking point is always reached in which the wealth is no longer there to sustain it. For France .... that point is fast approaching.