Cannes

General secretary of the CGT Energie Savoie union Fabrice Coudour said the union's goal was not to prevent the events but to have 'spaces to speak'.

A total of 17 people aboard two vessels were taken to shore ‘safe and sound but shocked’.

The screening of Okja was halted after the film, which has courted controversy at Cannes, was booed in its first few minutes.