On the night of Tuesday October 8 to Wednesday October 9, members of the Hérault Rural Coordination carried out actions in Biterrois and Montpellier. Their targets: radars, Crédit Agricole, MSA, to reiterate their anger and their inability to make a living from their activity…
This Tuesday, October 8, from 9 p.m. and until midnight, the evening was hectic for the members of the Hérault Rural Coordination. Several teams have in fact carried out different actions. “Tic tac boom”, the alert message was clear: on the Biterrois radars (that of Sérignan on the road to Valras, the construction site radar on the Béziers ring road, the turret radar in Servian) but also in front of the MSA and Crédit Agricole in Montpellier…
“The radar is to question the State on the payment delays of the CAP (Common agricultural policy, Editor’s note). To cut off their income since they don’t pay us ours”underlines Arnaud Poitrine, the secretary general of the Rural Coordination of Hérault, based in Cabrières.
“The beginning of a strong mobilization”
Grievances pile up, anger competes with distress: “All this is also to protest against the government which did not keep its word: we had obtained the deferred grubbing up, but it is a definitive grubbing up which is proposed, which is an aberration and will lead to deserts agricultural.” Not to mention the controls of the accounting balance sheets of the MSA and the “Historically low harvest. Agriculture is doing poorly, in general, particularly because of climatic conditions. This is therefore the start of a strong mobilization.”
“It’s been 3 years since I earned a salary”
Actions on public finance centers are mentioned to protest against the property tax on unbuilt buildings. “We can’t pay it, we don’t have the cashtestifies Arnaud Poitrine. Wine prices continue to fall, consumption is falling, traders are bringing in foreign wines at low prices and asking us to fall in line. We don’t see any more! It’s been 3 years since I earned a salary. We survive with the RSA but that’s not the idea.”
The end of the harvest therefore signals the start of a new movement. “Because we have no visibility on anything, we no longer know where we are going”. According to the winegrower, the situation would be worse now than a few months ago, when the vast farmers’ movement began…
