Already, the evening before, the farmers installed in front of Scachap, in Ruffec, Leclerc's logistics base, had received a real blow of pressure from the gendarmerie colonel. “No violence”. They understood that the hours were numbered and that they were going to have to get out.
In Roullet, the message was officially delivered to Xavier Desouche. It will probably take a little time. “Time to negotiate, to clear out, to put away the straw bales on the sidelines,” the regional secretary of the movement envisages, calmly.
For farmers, the game is over. They had warned that they would not degrade. “They kept their word. They did not dump on us,” said Arnaud Vautrin, director of the Lidl logistics base in Anais, this Friday morning. Impatient to be able to get its 300 employees back into action, half of whom had agreed to take leave on Thursday morning, when the CR unloaded its tractors in the base parking lot.
Lidl had anticipated the movement. “The stores may have overstocked,” concedes Arnaud Vautrin. But since Thursday morning none of the fifty trucks that come to deliver have been able to enter the site, none of the sixty that leave to supply the stores has been able to leave.
The employees, when they were not placed in training, were able to anticipate the “dry” orders to be prepared. “But we have all the fresh produce, the fruits and vegetables, the meat, waiting on the docks, which you deliver to us and which we do not want to throw away,” he tells Frank Olivier. Between the two men, the dialogue was courteous, frank, but the director of the base expected a “rapid release of his access”. Even if, beyond the fresh delivered daily, the stores have a week of stock, it is still “1,600 pallets, our daily deliveries to 70 supermarkets in nine departments which are overdue. »
On the site, the tractors are getting ready to move at the start of the afternoon. “We planned to stay four days,” recalls Frank Olivier. Progress in discussions with the government and the intervention of the police will have shortened the movement somewhat.
