Still fighting for their living and working conditions, farmers are resuming their actions. From the Pyrénées-Orientales to Lozère via Gard or Hérault, operations aimed at calling on the population will multiply from this Monday, November 18.
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Something promised, something due. While heads of state from around the world are currently negotiating the MERCOSUR treaty, in Argentina, French farmers have put their threats into action. Still opposed to an agreement that they consider unfair, they implemented their first actions in the region this Monday, November 18.
In the Gard department, major traffic disruptions are expected. Starting with access to Avignon. In a press release, the departmental council suggests making journeys primarily via the A9 and A7 motorways. Access from the south will be possible via Beaucaire and the RD90. The circulation of heavy goods vehicles will be prohibited during this period on the Ponts d'Aramon (RD402) and Roquemaure (RD976). A local diversion for light vehicles will be possible via the Pont d'Aramon (RD402).
In the north of the region, in Lozère, members of the rural coordination carried out tarpaulin actions on radars with tractor tires or other messages on tarpaulins.
In the city, angry farmers are called to mobilize in front of the Prefecture of Montpellier, this Monday at 11 a.m. They will also be at Place de la Comédie with town signs and a hanged man to symbolize the death of French agriculture before gathering at the Europe roundabout. “The objective is not to annoy the population, we will not block any highways”specifies Sophie Noguès, president of the FDSEA 34, as Arnaud Rousseau, president of the FNSEA, had already indicated a few days ago.
The objective is not to annoy the population, we will not block any highways
The next day, the activists of the Rural Coordination, on the other hand, will move on to more important actions. Accompanied by farmers from Haute-Garonne, Lot-et-Garonne and Pyrénées-Orientales, they plan to block all heavy goods vehicles that attempt to return to France from Spain. Their objective is that no product banned in France can enter.
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