Protesting French power workers cut off former PM’s supply

ELECTRICITY workers cut power to a former French prime minister yesterday as part of a national day of action against government plans to partly privatise public utilities.

Power to the Bordeaux home of Alain Juppe, a prime minister in the 1990s who now heads President Jacques Chirac’s party, was shut off overnight.

The homes of other figures, including the head of France’s leading business federation, also suffered.