Farmers continue their “dumpster festival” by attacking state symbols

Around forty farmers demonstrated this Thursday evening, December 5, in two towns near Montauban in Tarn-et-Garonne. They dumped slurry on the facade of public buildings, under the eyes of 150 mobilized police officers and gendarmes.

Nothing can stop the anger of French farmers, not even the resignation of the government. The operators of the Tarn-et-Garonne demonstrated it jThursday December 5 by continuing their protest actions in two towns west of Montauban.

First gathered in Castelmayran, a procession of around twenty tractors with all their lights on entered the town of Castelsarrasin around 10 p.m. in order to invade the town center.

The forty farmers present on site first dumped eight bins of bales of straw and slurry, in front of the sub-prefecture and near the police station.

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The convoy then headed towards the MSA to dump more dumpsters of waste. A spreader was also activated to spray poultry droppings onto the building.

Warned of the arrival of the demonstrators, the district sub-prefect had mobilized a massive supervision system by the police, more than 150 police officers and gendarmes including the CRS, and set up a security perimeter. Several representatives of state services were also on the bridge, with the aim of avoiding any significant damage.

The authorities report three broken windows, a limited toll compared to the damage noted in the commune during the previous peasant mobilization of February 2024. The sub-prefecture was then walled up. Later in the evening, the tractors took to the road again to go in a procession to the neighboring town of Moissac. They dumped slurry in front of the public finance department, before dispersing shortly after one in the morning.

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Called “dumpster festival” by the mobilized farmers, the action was carried out without the supervision of the departmental trade union organizations, even if some participants made no secret of their proximity to the representative unions, FDSEA, JA and Coordination Rurale.

The correspondent of the daily La Dépêche who was on site was able to collect some testimonies from these “non-aligned” farmers.

All express the same feeling of abandonment, and the urgency of support measures, to keep their farms afloat.