Around 100 police moved in overnight prompting strikers to complain of “a scandal” Riot police in France have taken over a major oil refinery east of Paris, one of 12 facilities blockaded by strikers for more than 10 days.
They moved into the Grandpuits refinery, 50km (30 miles) from the capital, in the early hours of Friday.
President Nicolas Sarkozy ordered the authorities to lift the blockade earlier this week after thousands of petrol stations across France ran dry.
The Senate will vote later on pension reforms, which sparked the action.
The Total refinery at Grandpuits, the closest to Paris, is seen as critical for supplying fuel to the city and the main airports at Orly and Charles de Gaulle.
Union official Charles Foulard described the action as “a scandal” because police had acted in the middle of the night.
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