A convoy of around twenty tractors left the Chambray-lès-Tours racecourse around 1 p.m. this Wednesday. At the same time, another slightly smaller convoy left north of Tours. The two convoys were to take the ring road and exit at the Porte de La Riche, before converging towards the city center. The unions behind this mobilization, the FNSEA and the Young Farmers, want to denounce the difficulties of the agricultural world and protest against the signing of a trade agreement between the European Union and the Mercosur countries. They are requesting an adjustment so that certain products are excluded from this agreement.
The new prefect, Thomas Campeaux, received them for more than an hour and a half in the Indre-et-Loire prefecture, in the city center of Tours. A meeting which concludes with the creation of a group on the question of ditch cleaning, considered the priority of the moment by the FNSEA. No concrete progress: which does not discourage the demonstrators, this meeting was also an opportunity for them to take the temperature of this new prefect, who comes from a very rural region, Aine.
Several bins of manure were emptied in front of the Departmental Directorate of Territories, avenue de Grammont. Then two skips were dumped at the end of the afternoon in front of the prefecture gates.
©Eva Kling
The farmers then headed towards Place Jean Jaurès, while a delegation left to meet the new prefect of Indre-et-Loire at the prefecture.
©Eva Kling
©Eva Kling
©Eva Kling
Their action should continue into the night, with filtering operations. In Parçay-Meslay, around the Auchan logistics platform, as well as on the Sorigny roundabout, demonstrators plan to stop all trucks in order to block those transporting goods of origin other than French.
They say they are determined to stay on these strategic points until Friday.
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