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The agricultural mobilizations of last winter required long months of cleaning and decontamination of certain sites, which local institutions had to take charge of alone, even though the police had shown a certain leniency towards the world. peasant.
After the tractors left, he continued to smoke for weeks. Epicenter of the agricultural mobilizations at the start of 2024, in Côtes-d'Armor, the strategic Kernilien roundabout, near Guingamp, was drowned over the days and nights of occupation under an enormous pile of burned rubbish. Its restoration cost the department, owner of the infrastructure, a lot of money: 550,000 euros. An addition mainly due to the nature of the waste dumped: of the 545 tonnes recorded, 370 tonnes contained asbestos, like these fiber cement sheets which cover old agricultural sheds. It was necessary to put in place, explains the department, “special protocols” to evacuate, via a private company, this dangerous waste, but also to transport it to Mayenne to a specialized site. More minor damage was recorded at other points in the territory. In total, the damage from the agricultural movement amounts to more than 640,000 euros for the community.
Côtes-d'Armor is the most affected of the four Breton departments. On the side of national roads too, “between the evacuation and treatment of waste, as well as the repair of roadways by the West Interdepartmental Roads Directorate [Diro]there's
