They were installed Tuesday evening, they were dislodged. The prefecture ordered this Thursday morning the evacuation of demonstrators from Rural Coordination 33 who blocked the purchasing centers of Beychac-et-Caillau, near the N89. The demonstrators first paralyzed that of Leclerc on Tuesday evening, then that of Auchan on Wednesday. This Thursday, at the end of the morning, the gendarmes, on orders from the prefecture, evacuated the demonstrators from the two platforms. First, that of Auchan, “without use of force and without incident”, according to a press release from state services.
Then, shortly before noon this Thursday, several dozen gendarmes with vans evacuated the yellow caps who were in front of the Leclerc power station, surrounding the tractors with armored vehicles, and gradually letting the demonstrators leave, noted the journalist from France Bleu Gironde on site. “Traffic may be occasionally disrupted in the area, vigilance remains essential for road users,” writes the prefecture again.
They reach the port of Bordeaux
The mobilized farmers said they wanted to join the Lot-et-Garonne Rural Coordination, which still blocks the commercial port of Bordeaux and the DPA oil depot in the town of Bassens: a few dozen farmers are mobilized, tires, cables and a tractor obstruct entry to the site. Several businesses are inaccessible. Trucks are stopped by the dozens, and not just those transporting imported cereals, specifies the franceinfo journalist on site.
“I got stuck here last night, so I parked and left my truck,” explains François, behind the wheel of his car transporter. “When I left this morning, it was blocked. I had to go to Gers, Toulouse, Foix. But we are well received. We will have sausages at noon”, he puts things into perspective, claiming to support the movement and even borrowing a yellow cap to shelter in the rain. A weather which also satisfies Julien, a farmer who came from Agen and who slept in the cabin of his tractor. “With this weather, there wasn’t much to do,” on his exploitation, he notes. The demonstrators tried in the morning to contact Annie Genevard, the Minister of Health without success.
“We are stuck as long as Ms. Genevard and Mr. Barnier do not put in place solutions for the profession. Structural things, (…), we don't want a little money today to return to our farms, we want reforms to live, to have a decent salary”, declared Aurélie Armand, director of the CR of Lot-et-Garonne, to AFP.
