This Tuesday, the Toulouse metro is completely stopped, a great first in the history of this fully automated network. A situation born of a conflict linked to the mandatory annual negotiations on wages and the integration into the latter of a safeguard clause to catch up with inflation.

"It has never happened that the metro stops for a whole day because of a strike movement," Stéphane Chapuis, general secretary of the CGT at Tisséo, told AFP. The strike will end on Wednesday.