they seek him here...

as petrol stations start to run out of fuel and the truck drivers prepare to join other transport workers on strike, as the ports are blockaded, rubbish piles up in the streets of Marseille and anarchists break heads in Paris, and, er, briefly storm the Bastille, where is our President? Publicity hound that you are, Monsieur Sarkozy, you have disappeared from our screens.  Why might that be?  For a pretty good report in English of recent events paste the link below.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-1155926