At the end of October, they removed the entrance signs from the communes of Oise. This week, they covered the radars. Yesterday, Sunday, December 17, they lit “fires of anger” in different places in the department.
Today, Monday November 18, angry farmers arrived at the Departmental Territorial Directorate of Beauvais (Oise) to show their dissatisfaction, and to deposit the signs that they removed a few weeks earlier.
At night in front of the prefecture
Later in the day, the farmers planned to wall off the OFB (French Biodiversity Office), rue de Strasbourg. They should then settle in front of the Oise prefecturestill in Beauvais. And spend the night there. And so as not to go unnoticed, they planned to install bird scarers, “to wake up the state».
Tomorrow, Tuesday November 19, they should break camp and take the road to Amiens.
Mercosur, point of disagreement
The main demand of this important demonstration, the denunciation of the free trade agreement which could be signed between the European Union and Mercosur. “Mercosur is the typical image of what we don't wantproclaims Luc Smessaert, administrator at the FNSEA (National Federation of Farmers' Unions). This is what we don't want in our home but it's also what we don't want on our plates. We absolutely must have answers by December because we are not going to spend our time in the streets. Our job is to be on our farms.»
