Times of India reported that mocking the French Government for asking ArcelorMittal to leave France, London Mayor Mr Boris Johnson on Tuesday said "Sans-culottes (working class militants) appear to have captured Paris."

The London Mayor was speaking to Indian industry leaders at a Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry meeting here seeking investments for the world's leading financial centre.

Describing a 115 meter ArcelorMittal steel tower - Orbit - at the Olympics Park in London as fusion of friendship between India and the UK, Mr Johnson said, "I say this on a day when I picked up a newspaper and I see sans culottes appear to have captured the government of Paris and a French minister has been so eccentric as to call for a massive investor to depart."

Sans-culottes were the radical left-wing urban working class who dominated France during the French Revolution of 1789.