2024-01-28 16:35:33
Furious, to the point that they threaten “to surround Paris for an indefinite period starting this Monday”, French farmers are on a war footing and demand concrete measures from the governmenttenseing a situation that is feared could lead to serious clashes with the police.
The producers have brought thousands of agricultural vehicles, of all kinds but especially tractorsto the routes that converge around Paris, ready to “fence everything” from tomorrow, which has caused the French government to ask the police this Sunday to implement a “important defense device” precisely to prevent the farmers block the entrances to Paris, within the framework of their claim against heavy financial burdens and foreign competition, among other things. It was because of this issue that President Emmanuel Macron stated a few days ago that he opposed the progress of negotiations with Mercosur.
The main French agricultural unions consider the announcements made by the government in favor of the sector to be “insufficient”, and confirmed that they will continue with their fight plan, which includes that “silence of the capital for an unlimited duration”.
In this context, the Minister of the Interior, Gerald Darmaninbrought together this Sunday the general directors of the police and the gendarmerie together with the head of the Paris police to prevent them from blocking the capital. In any case, he reiterated his request for “moderation” by the security forces against the farmers.
“The position remains the same: the police must act with great restraint” and only intervene as a “last resort” in case the integrity of people is threatened or if serious damage occurs to the infrastructure of the area, the official explained.
French farmers are demanding, particularly, the drop in incomelas low pensionsthe administrative complexitythe inflation of standards and the foreign competition.
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For his part, the president of the main agricultural union in France, Arnaud Rousseau, made a call “for calm and determination.” In any case, he warned that it will be about “week of all dangers”.
“There can be no other accidents”sentenced in reference to the events of earlier this week in the southwest of the country, where a farmer and her daughter were killed by a vehicle that tried to cross a barricade.
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