Photo: AFPAFP · 12 Sep 2016, 08:26Published: 12 Sep 2016 08:26 GMT+02:00Around 700 French executives and business chiefs zoomed down Paris' famed Champs Elysees avenue on battered blue mopeds Sunday in a bid to combat a climate of economic gloom. Decked out in matching blue capes and pink helmets, the bosses zipped down the boulevard on their Motobecane mopeds, much beloved in France during the 1970s. Organisers said the event was an "apolitical" attempt to boost confidence in the French economy -- which is expanding, though barely -- and show solidarity with employees. Remi Peraud, a bank manager with the Banque Populaire who took part in the two-wheeled demo, said he wanted to show that "bosses know how to have fun". The "Meules Bleues" (Blue Moped) event is now in its third year, having started out with 150 bosses taking part in 2014.

Source: The Local September 11, 2016 20:03 UTC