Agreement or not, farmers angry not disarm. As promised, this Saturday, some of them were still resistance, wary after the compromise on prices reached with the government. Many actions aimed mainly supermarkets, took place in the South West of France, but also in the rest of the country.
Faced with these protests, the president of the FNSEA, Xavier Beulin, urged farmers to exercise restraint in their actions on the ground. “I understand and respect the exasperation of farmers who suffer but I ask them in the new union actions they undertake to respect the property and people,” said Xavier Beulin in a statement sent to AFP.
Toll Free, blocking, filtering dam …
In the Ariege, dozens of farmers burning straw bales and tires on a roundabout at the entrance of Pamiers, near two Leclerc and Intermarché supermarkets.
Twenty tractors have once again established filter dams in the morning, while manure was dumped in front of the large surface area, adding their own contribution to the mess that reigns already on the roads France in crossover weekend. “It slows down but it does not block. It is a symbolic action,” Rémi Toulis minimized, general secretary of the FDSEA of the department. Leaflets were also distributed to denounce prices for milk and beef and pork, still considered too low by breeders.
In other stores, controls have helped to find “a lot of meat from the Netherlands, New Zealand and a bit of Spain” at Lidl and Leader Price, said Rémi Toulis, general secretary of the FDSEA Ariege. Several meat wagons were intended for Restos du coeur.
The exchanger 6 of the RN 20 was temporarily closed output, according Bison fûté. In the Lot, other farmers have imposed free tolls, leaving stunned motorists in Gignac and Cahors South on Highway 20 before a planned action to supermarkets outside Cahors. Thirty tractors slowed traffic on fifteen kilometers of highway between Souillac and Gignac while a hundred farmers have opened the free toll Gignac, told AFP Alain Arcoutel, board member of the FDSEA Lot. Including leaflets calling to “eat French” and compliance with new commitments made this week in favor of farmers were distributed.
Farmers control prices in supermarkets
Meanwhile, a snail operation was in progress on thirty kilometers of motorway to Cahors-Sud where the convoy was to join the protesters of the toll, he said. The demonstrators, about fifty tractors, then headed to stores Leader Price, Lidl, Intermarché and Leclerc to check the provenance of the meat.
“We spotted the car park” in front of Leader Price and LIDL, “who do not play the game,” said Gilles Resseguier, deputy general secretary of the FDSEA Lot, stating that old tires, pallets , stones, cans, etc., were dumped. “It may be a bit nastier the next time,” he warned.
Other supermarkets were visited elsewhere in the Lot. Again, the origin of the meat “is not very clear” Leader Price and LIDL, said Dominique Clamagirand, the FDSEA. In the Landes, the union and Young Farmers have targeted on the night of supermarkets in five localities, drowning under the straw parks in Carrefour trolleys, Intermarché, Leclerc and Leader Price. “The FDSEA and JA require the distribution link clearly plays the game of local production. All the signs are now being monitored!” Warned the FDSEA-Landes.
in a zoo action
In the Deux-Sèvres, dozens of farmers blocked the four centers Leclerc and initiated discussions on the price and the origin of meat, as well as the price of milk.
In Côte d’Or, a manifestation of sixty farmers dumped manure in front of stores near Dijon, police said.
More unexpected, in Calvados, fifty farmers have conducted an operation in Cerza zoo near Lisieux, said Sébastien DEBIEU, general secretary of the FDSEA of the department.
briefly Blocking the boxes, they controlled cold rooms of the two restaurants, where they say they have found “the Italian meat and Ireland.”
In Morbihan, Leclerc centers accesses were blocked valves and seven other cities with a total of some 250 farmers, according to the FDSEA. In the Aube, between 200 and 300 farmers have filtered access to supermarkets Leclerc, Carrefour and Géant Casino de Troyes, while letting customers enter.
Farmers intend “to give cover in the days to come if nothing moves because of the agreements, be it on the meat or milk, should not we,” said Benedict Lévèque to the FDSEA. Part of the demonstrators then headed Troyes, where they were received at the prefecture, while a score of tractors parked in town without incident.
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