SNCF

The man, named only as David, told French broadcaster BFM TV he was on a call with his sister at Nantes station on Sunday when an employee from SNCF, the French railway company, approached him.

The national train authority, the SNCF, has canceled some regional trains in five eastern regions starting late Wednesday night.

Air traffic controllers and workers at SNCF, the country’s national railway operator, have walked out several times this year, and the action is expected to continue in the coming months as lawmakers discuss the draft pension bill.

Several unions joined a strike at the national railway company SNCF, slightly disrupting train traffic Thursday.

Some unions, such as the hardline CGT, called for a rolling strike at refineries and at the national railway operator SNCF.