* Marseilles, Paris's Charles de Gaulle and Orly airports affected * Passengers forced to carry their own luggage off planes * 3,000 of the country’s 12,000 petrol stations have run dry * Disputes costing country £100million a day Armed with pump-action shotguns, sidearms and stun grenades the officers look like they belong in a war zone. In fact they are elite French policemen who were deployed to the historic centre of Lyon yesterday to deal with rioting students. (Getty Image, go to link to see photos) President Nicolas Sarkozy took the extreme measure in the face of growing protests against...
