How the French rose up against a huge Amazon logistics centre

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For Gilles Renevier, a vet from a village south-east of Lyon, fighting the online retailer Amazon’s plans to build a vast logistics centre in his area was “common sense”.

The US tech giant – which is the market leader in French online shopping – was due to begin construction of a huge centre for packing and delivery beside Lyon airport in south-east France this year.

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