Farmers continue their blockades – Le Parisien

For more than ten days that farmers organize almost daily, movements.

in Beauvais (Oise), 300 farmers have spent the night of Monday to Tuesday in front of the prefecture. Tuesday morning, while a majority of them had returned to their farms, thirty farmers of the department continued to be the seat of the prefecture, while blocking the nearby N31. Received prefecture in the morning, a delegation was to claim prizes enabling them to live decently and the departure of the Minister of Farmer Stéphane Le Foll.


 At Chartres 200 farmers blocked since early morning access to the city and the prefecture. Since 7:00, the call of the FDSEA of Eure-et-Loir and Young Farmers (JA), protesters encircle the administrative buildings and block access to employees. They came with sixty tractors. They first locked the gates of the government and poured straw bales and tires.

In the Loiret, tractors are also output. Farmers organize a dam on the National 60, as reported by France Bleu.


 In Britain, is the Carrefour hypermarket of Quimper (Finistère) that the costs of agricultural anger. According to Ouest-France, the three store access were blocked at 9 am on Tuesday morning. They spilled pallets, straw bales or various objects on the access to the parking lanes. The store remains open but consumers must walk there.

In Normandy, are the Young Farmers and the FDSEA who revived the movement . Dozens of agricultural machinery began to gather around St. Lo, in the English Channel, before converging to the Prefecture where they should arrive just before noon.

In the Massif Central, the newspaper La Montagne, a demonstration of farmers is also underway since 10:30 in the center of Saint-Flour (Cantal). Already late last week they had carried out several activities, including taking is to tax services.

in Aquitaine is a “wake prefect” operation was organized early this Tuesday morning in Pau (Pyrénées-Atlantiques). According Southwest, fifty farmers filed tires outside the entrance of the building, waving shepherds bells. Led by the FDSEA, they denounce the low prices of meat and milk and call a roundtable the entire industry.

 A Bergerac, in the Dordogne, as they had done the day before, protesters have targeted supermarkets, Leclerc and Intermarché Hyper stores. According to the 150 farmers present on the spot, without saying if union label, roundabouts of blocking access to the stores should last all day. And they decide, to 20 hours, any new shares Wednesday. For its part the FDSEA appealed Wednesday for a rally at noon in front of the Prefecture in Perigueux.

Beulin Xavier, patron of the FNSEA, has been received by Francois Hollande in the morning at the Elysee.

He has asked a “European initiative”. “The president has heard our requests this morning, he said after the meeting. I asked him to affirm that France still had a farming strategy. ” According to him, Francois Hollande will speak on the subject before the Agricultural Show and during the fair held from 27 February in Paris.

Xavier Beulin said he did not ask farmers “who lose 6000 euros a week” to “go home.”