Until at least Friday, November 22, farmers from Corrèze and neighboring departments are holding, day and night, a filter dam in an activity zone near Brive. It is here, in the largest depot in the southwest region, that tons of foodstuffs pass through every day.
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The place is strategic. At the intersection of the A20 and A89 motorways, the Escudier logistics zone in Donzenac, north of Brive-la-Gaillarde, sees hundreds of trucks transit daily. In their load: tons of meat and foodstuffs, some coming from abroad, to be delivered to nearby supermarkets.
This Wednesday, November 20, around fifteen tractors gathered along the A20 in Corrèze to block trucks transporting meat from abroad.
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Around fifteen tractors set up on a roundabout near this axis to set up a filter dam this Wednesday afternoon. After local demonstrations in Limoges and Guéret, where public buildings of the prefectures or the French Biodiversity Office (OFB) were targeted the day before, the union is now attacking food freight.
The objective is clear: to block the transport of goods. “No trucks leave the depot. We block everything”chants an organizer in front of the procession.
Even if it's French meat on the trucks, we don't get the right price for it. We are blocking all food freight to show the population what a world without farmers is like.
Rémi DumaurePresident of Rural Coordination in Dordogne
After actions in Limoges and Guéret the day before, the Rural Coordination arranged to meet its members near Brive-la-Gaillarde this Wednesday, November 20.
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For several days, the Rural Coordination, the second agricultural union, has been calling for a tougher protest movement throughout the country. Even if it means going through blockages, which the majority alliance FNSEA and Young Farmers (JA) rejects.
In Donzenac, the camp is set up until at least Friday. “We're going to spend two nights outside, it's not going to be fun, but we have to do it. We're going to win, they're going to fold. We're not going to die in silence”encourages another organizer, recalling that “some traveled 200 km by tractor to come here“.
On the other side of the road, on the loading docks of food freight companies, the ball of pallet trucks continues. “For the moment, activity is normal. We just have a few vehicles blocked, particularly towards Bordeaux and others which are delayed”indicates Jean-Jacques Madrias, director of the Madrias company, one of the largest meat transporters in France.
Transport companies located in the activity zone targeted by the Rural Coordination demonstrators continue to load trucks, despite the filter barrier.
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If access to the Stef refrigerated transport company was targeted this Wednesday, a few kilometers away, the Madrias company has not yet been worried by the farmers. “I would be very surprised if they wanted to block our trucks while we are transporting their products leaving the department,” comments Jean-Jacques Madrias, who says “understand their movement”.
The Corrèze prefecture invites users to avoid the area of the Donzenac activity zone. Traffic on the A20 motorway is severely disrupted between interchanges 47 and 48.
This Wednesday, the Creuse Rural Coordination announced that it could join the Corrèze actions.
