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A farmer prepares to throw tyres onto a burning pile during clashes with riot police as they demonstrate on highway A54 next to a bridge with radars set up to collect an environmental tax called "ecotax" in Arles, southern France, on November 15, 2013. Protests over the new "ecotax" on trucks, which aims to encourage environmentally friendly commercial transport, kicked off in earnest last month in the northwestern region of Brittany and eventually forced the government to backtrack and suspend the levy. AFP PHOTO / BERTRAND LANGLOIS (Photo credit should read BERTRAND LANGLOIS/AFP via Getty Images)