Police have ordered striking rubbish collectors to end their blockade of a waste depot near Paris, after the company managing the site asked the courts to do so. Pizzorno Environnement collects rubbish from the 15th arrondissement of Paris and 150 schools in the capital, but employees had walked off the job in protest of the government's pension reform. Far-left MEP Manon Aubry denounced a "pretty violent police operation" and said "the only tool Emmanuel Macron has left is the tool of force". IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES