Blockages – Rural Coordination is blocking the port of Bordeaux and a purchasing center in Landes, but mobilization is decreasing, while the FNSEA, the majority union, has called for mobilization next week
The commercial port of Bordeaux blocked. The Rural Coordination, the main agricultural union, remains mobilized on the ground this Thursday, the fourth day of farmers' mobilization. Access to the port and the oil depot was blocked by tires, cables and a tractor.
“Where block so much that [la ministre de l’agriculture] Annie Geneva and [le Premier ministre] Michel Barnier does not put in place solutions for the profession. […] We don’t want a little money today to return to our farms, we want reforms to live,” declared Aurélie Armand, director of Rural Coordination of Lot-et-Garonne.
Evacuation in Gironde
Further south, in the Landes, CR farmers still occupy a Leclerc purchasing center in Mont-de-Marsan (Landes). But the authorities gave them until Friday inclusive to vacate the premises. In Beychac-et-Caillau (Gironde), the gendarmes evacuated the blockage of two logistics platforms “without incident”, according to the prefecture.
The prefect of Landes condemned “the damage committed by members of the Rural Coordination” Wednesday evening on the sites of the Mutualité sociale agricole and the Departmental Directorate(…) Read more on 20minutes
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