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The world's second-most wealthy man, French tycoon Bernard Arnault, founder of the LVMH luxury goods empire, has sold his company’s Bombardier Global 7500, currently the biggest and longest-range business aircraft, because his movements were being broadcast on Twitter accounts aimed at shaming him over its carbon emissions.

A party of seven men and three women of several nationalities who arrived from Britain in a chartered jet at Marseille-Provence airport, where helicopters were waiting to fly them on to a luxury villa in the Rivierra resort of Cannes, were told by airport police they were breaching regulations to contain the Cofid-19 virus epidemic and ordered to return to the UK.

Alain Afflelou, who owns Europe's largest optician franchise chain, was said to be "stunned" that his jet was used to carry 700 kilos of cocaine.