Fresh blow for Starmer as French strike chaos delays Bayeux Tapestry loan | UK | News
France postponed the historical loan of the Bayeux goblelen with the ghost of the country -wide strikes that would swallow the country on Thursday – Sir Keir gave a stinging decline for Starmer. In Normandy, a widening embroidered date of the conquest of Norman in almost a millennium, the 11th -century masterpiece, was transferred to a safe place before the eagerly anticipated England exhibition on September 18th.
However, the fear of “social unrest” forced the authorities to press the pause button and deprived the Prime Minister of the Brexit as a wide branch of cultural olives. The delay, firstly reported by the French publisher BFMTV, comes in the midst of the increasing tensions in France, where trade unions are gathered against President Emmanuel Macron’s arctic squeezing measures. The call for an inter -industrial movement mobilized workers among the sectors, and warned the Ministry of the Interior to keep the streets of up to 900,000 participants under water.
On September 10, more than 250 demonstrations exceeding 200,000, which emerged under the banner “Bloquons Tout” on September 10, were declared.
Only 50,000 to 100,000 protesters are expected in Paris and asked for 80,000 law enforcement force to be deployed – this kind of biggest mobilization since this yellow vest period.
Paris Police Governor Laurent Nuñez stole the alarm in the BFMTV and revealed the intelligence that “hundreds of thousands of” agitators “fighting and destroying”, probably, “hundreds of thousands of” agitators “during the rallies.
He said: “We have reliable reports on organized violence,” calm, but preparing for the worst.
Regional authorities also have a high alarm: in Clermont-Ferrand, a stock of parquet stones appeared in Place de Jaude, which fueled pre-planned sabotage suspicions.
Shipping networks, railway lines, metropolises, buses and even flights are prepared for chaos up to the stopping point. Touristic places, including the Eiffel Tower and Louvre, are facing closing, while health services warn the personnel to reduce.
For Sir Keir, the timing could not be worse, the administration hugged Prime Minister Angela Rayner and the resignation of the US Ambassador Peter Mandelson.
During a state visit by Macron in July, the Gobene loan, which was declared with Fanfare, promised a rare diplomatic coup.
He was greeted by Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy as a “bridge along the channel”, he would see the 70-meter ruins-the 1066 invasion of Fatih depicted William-British Museum by drawing millions from 2026 Spring and injected £ 200 million to tourism.
Critics had already rejected a “inheritance crime” on the concerns of fragility, but French Culture Minister Rachida Dati insisted last month and broke these fears: “This is not very fragile to travel – this is a symbol of our common history.”
Confirmed by the French Ministry of Interior, the postponement states the vulnerability of the transfer to interruptions. The work in the UK after the war -time exile in the UK has been in Bayeux’s Musée de la Tapisserie, requiring armored convoys and airness for its journey.
A ministry spokesman Le Monde told the following: “In the middle of the expected turmoil, security risks are very high,” a new history “will be determined as soon as possible” stressed.
Express.co.uk contacted the culture, media and sports department for comment.
