At the beginning they didn't want to talk. They were “tired”, they wanted to rest and “take a break, do some housekeeping” both in their house and in their heads. For three weeks they had been giving interviews and fighting night and day in defence of jobs and for a good pay-off. The media spotlight had suddenly focussed on Brittany in the west of France, a socialist bastion that exploded in anger, and where protesters donned the 'red hats' of its rebellious past to fight against the planned new green tax, to burn tyres and to destroy speed cameras. But in the end it changed nothing.
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