This is the “hundred potato” question. And that's starting to make some hands sweaty. What should we expect in the coming days and how far will the kidnappers go?
The peasant world had warned in recent weeks that the tone would harden in mid-November if the Government did not respond favorably to the demands of last January during the weeks of blockades and demonstrations across France.
After the threats, it is now time for kidnapping and sequestration. The victims were clearly identified: the town entrance signs. After being returned, at the end of 2023, almost everywhere in Limousin, the famous white panels bordered in red were “sequestered” this Tuesday, November 5, by the Young Farmers of Haute-Vienne. Around fifteen signs from the municipalities in the north of the department, but also some in the south.
The action was claimed and the ransom demanded in a cry from the heart mixing anger and distress. Yet another from farmers, “disappointed by the promises not kept last January by the government of Gabriel Attal (then Prime Minister)”, according to Léa Senon, a young Limousin cattle breeder in Rancon, north of Haute-Vienne and representative of the JA of the canton of Châteauponsac.
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“The sequestration of these panels is symbolic and not malicious. It is a way of calling on the mayors and that they follow us in this movement, that we defend our work and that the communities can mobilize to propose local products in our canteens”, recalled the farmer mid-week, referring to farmers' concerns about the free trade agreement between the Mercosur countries (South America) and the European Union.
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