At the call of Rural Coordination, the tractors were back on Thursday, November 28, in the streets of Orléans. Relive this day of mobilization.
A day of action by farmers, mainly at the call of Rural Coordination, was organized on Thursday, November 28 in Orléans.
17 h 30. After walking up Rue Jeanne-d'Arc carrying four coffins and singing The Marseillaisefarmers observed a minute of silence in front of the cathedral in memory of farmers who died in recent years. The demonstrators will now return home and the tractors will leave Orléans.
Farmers observed a minute of silence in front of the cathedral in memory of farmers who have died in recent years.
17 h 20. Coffins were brought to Orléans Cathedral to signify the death of French agriculture.Farmers carry coffins “to signify the death of French agriculture”.
5 p.m. The farmers arrived in the city center, in front of the cathedral and on rue Jeanne-d'Arc.
Tractors in rue Jeanne-d'Arc
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16 h 40. The procession of agricultural vehicles heads towards downtown Orléans, via Boulevard de Québec.
Head to the city center.
16 h 15. The situation became tense for a few minutes in front of the closed gates of the Cité Coligny, with some members of the Rural Coordination suggesting forcing the gate to dump skips inside. After discussion with the police, a skip was dumped in front of the gate.
Manure is dumped in front of the closed gates of the Coligny city.
15 h 45. The delegation of representatives of the Rural Coordination of all the departments of the region left, after two hours of meeting with the prefect, in the Coligny city. “As usual, they say they're going to bring it up… We're not getting anything, I think they're hoping we'll demobilize. We're going to have to hold on, it's going to cost us time, money. “money”, summarizes Geneviève de Brach.
Geneviève de Brach, president of the Centre-Val de Loire Rural Coordination.
“Everyone is passing the buck, particularly on controls,” regrets Aurélie Hallain, from the Rural Coordination of Eure-et-Loir.
13h30. There are around 150 farmers gathered in front of the Cité Coligny. The former MP, and current RN regional advisor, Mathilde Paris is present, with the Region's scarf around her neck.
“We had a lot of great promises at the start of the year, after the mobilization, but nothing concrete on our farms, except that the Rural Coordination obtained the zero-rating of GNR (non-road diesel)”, laments Maguelonne de Seze, established in mixed farming and sheep breeding, in Indre.
A next mobilization of the Rural Coordination is planned for Tuesday December 3 in Saint-Amand-Montrond (Cher).
1 p.m. The farmers wait around the fire before the delegation is received. Calm atmosphere with a few explosions from time to time to mark the occasion.
In the street.
Edouard Legras, the president of the Rural Coordination of Loir-et-Cher, summarizes the expectations from the meeting with the prefect: “What we are going to ask above all locally are educational controls, and not punitive. we know very well what they are going to tell us, even Barnier tells us that he can't do anything.”
Jean Gautier, cereal grower in Indre-et-Loire, believes “that we also need to talk about the psychological state of farmers. We are angry, tired of repeating the same thing, but we also have strong fears. The harvest of this year is not enough, there are some who counted on the harvest to pay for inputs, but that does not make the cut…”
Geneviève de Brach agrees: “There are plenty of farmers who repay the short term with the short term, it’s not bearable.”
12 h 30. We learn that the delegation, with representatives of the Rural Coordination from the entire region, should be received around 1:30 p.m. in Coligny, before the departure, immediately, of the funeral march, “tribute to the farmers who committed suicide and to the farms who disappear.
12 h 15. A little hungry? The barbecue is getting ready. It's okay, it's local.
Before lighting the barbecue.
12 h 05.The tractors parked in front of the Cité Coligny, blocking rue du Faubourg-Bannier from boulevard de Châteaudun to rue des Deux-Ponts.
Tractors block the approaches to Coligny.
12 hours. “Toxic imports”, “prices and not bonuses” “too many taxes”: the dozens of tractors parading in front of the Cité Coligny (closed due to the demonstration) carry the slogans of the Rural Coordination.
A delegation must be received before a funeral march towards the regional prefecture.
11 h 45. “Mercosur is the straw that breaks the camel’s back,” explains Geneviève de Brach, president of the Centre-Val de Loire Rural Coordination, from Cher. “We are fed up with the overtransposition of French standards, it has to stop, our treasuries are drained, there is no more money. We have to return to peasant common sense.”Geneviève de Brach, president of the Centre-Val de Loire rural coordination
11 h 30. The farmers' convoy is in town. Traffic is difficult on rue du Faubourg-Bannier, between the Vallée roundabout in Fleury-les-Aubrais and the Coligny administrative center in Orléans, indicates the Loiret prefecture.
11 a.m.
10 hours. In the morning, a convoy formed in Blois, in Loir-et-Cher, and took the highway towards Orléans.
Farmers are expected from 11 a.m. in the streets of the regional prefecture.
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The procession left Blois after 9:30 a.m., a journalist from the Nouvelle République du Centre-Ouest noted on site. In the afternoon, the convoy will take the highway again, with police supervision on one of the lanes.
The demonstrators will then participate in “a funeral march”, between the Draaf and the Loiret prefecture, rue de Bourgogne, “in order to symbolize this silent agricide, denouncing the progressive disappearance of our agriculture and the lack of support for our farmers”, details Rural Coordination in a press release.
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