2024-01-22 14:18:43
Farmers’ anger is growing in France. In Haute-Garonne, a portion of the A64 motorway is still blocked at Carbonne, between Toulouse and Saint-Gaudens, Monday January 22. Around ten farmers slept there for the fourth consecutive night, according to the Radio France journalist present on site. “There are no plans for evacuation by the police, in any case these are the instructions that I gave to the prefect and the general director of the gendarmerie, since there is no damage on this site”, declared the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, at a press conference. The minister assured farmers of his support in this “difficult moment in their professional life”, while calling on them to “respect the common good”. Follow our live stream.
Several blockages in progress in Occitania. Still on the A64, a blockage is also maintained in the Hautes-Pyrénées near Tarbes, reports France Bleu. The A62 motorway, west of Montauban, is also blocked in Tarn-et-Garonne. In the Gers, the RN124 which links Toulouse to Auch is still blocked at Pujaudran.
Actions carried out in several regions. In the Pyrénées-Orientales, for example, around a hundred farmers with around fifty tractors began to block a toll gate south of Perpignan, according to France Bleu. A demonstration is also being held in Lauterbourg (Bas-Rhin). “I can tell you that from today and throughout the week and for as long as necessary, a certain number of actions will be carried out”declared Arnaud Rousseau, the president of the FNSEA, the first French agricultural union, Monday on France Inter.
A meeting planned in Matignon. Faced with the rumble, which is spreading in Europe without sparing France, Gabriel Attal receives at 6 p.m. the powerful agricultural union FNSEA, which is expecting “concrete acts”. “Our farmers are not bandits, polluters, people who torture animals, as we sometimes hear”launched the Prime Minister during a trip to the Rhône.
A European mobilization. The government fears a conflagration while from the Netherlands to Romania via Poland and Germany, farmers are stepping up actions against this tax increase and the European Green Deal. All this against a backdrop of inflation and competition from Ukrainian imports.
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