Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau warned farmers this Sunday that there would be “zero tolerance” in the event of “sustainable blockage” of roads.
While a massive mobilization of farmers is being prepared this Sunday to intensify next week, the Minister of the Interior wanted to warn the protesters.
On RTL, Bruno Retailleau warned that there would be “zero tolerance” on his part in the event of a “long-term blockage” of the roads.
If the right to demonstrate is guaranteed by the Constitution, the tenant of Beauvau mentioned several “limits”. “No attacks on property, no attacks on people, and no encystment,” he insisted.
Engaged “dialogues”
If the mobilizations have already started, Bruno Retailleau indicated that he had initiated “dialogue” with the union organizations, “precisely to be able to avoid slippages”.
The minister also distinguished the mobilization of farmers from that announced by railway workers for the end of the year.
“Between farmers who are no longer able to live off the fruits of their labor and railway unions who want to take the French hostage, there are double standards,” he considered.
As a reminder, the main agricultural unions still denounce the bureaucracy and the low income of farmers, believing that despite emergency aid and government announcements, the account is not there.
The latter also reject outright the free trade agreement between the European Union and Latin American Mercosur countries, like the government which assures them that it is using “all means” to block it.
