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The menace had been brandished at the start of the week. If François Bayrou did not meet them upon his return from Mayotte, the farmers, “unionized or not”, were going to “go to Paris” and “block all the main roads” serving the capital. Friday January 3, 2025, Matignon indicated that the Prime Minister would receive the agricultural unions “in turn” on January 13.

Until Monday noon

A date considered too far away by the Rural Coordination (CR), which called on its members to demonstrate “everywhere in France” and “to go to Paris, by car or tractor” from this Sunday. The second agricultural union, accustomed to heavy-handed actions, wants to put pressure on François Bayrou to obtain the “removal of the overtransposition of European rules in France” and the implementation of “controls on imports”.

An anger which had already erupted last year, and which was manifested by a first “blockade of Paris”. The authorities in Paris and the inner suburbs are preparing.

For two days, the competent prefectures have issued various decrees to prevent them from demonstrating. Thus, from this Sunday, 6 p.m., “any undeclared gathering” in the center of Paris, including the Élysée and the National Assembly, and the Min de Rungis sector and the A6B, in the Val- de-Marne, are prohibited. A decree which runs at least until Monday noon.

A large area of ​​central Paris including the Élysée and the National Assembly, and an area including the Rungis market and the A6B are affected.

The “security system” put in place “aims to prevent all damage and violence and all punchy actions,” indicates the Paris Police Prefecture.
According to a police source, “internal contradictions and with other unions nevertheless reduce the risks of large-scale mobilization”.

“Plans maintained as planned”

“Plans are being maintained as planned and kept confidential so that these actions can proceed as planned,” the agency said.AFP Véronique Le Floc'h, president of the CR. “Several dozen tractors are already scattered, ready to position themselves,” according to her.

“We will be in Paris on Sunday evening. We have a meeting point in 91 [Essonne]another in the 27 [Eure] and another which is in the process of being defined”, specified Patrick Legras, spokesperson for the CR, who expects the presence of “several hundred farmers from Sunday”.

The call to demonstrate was relayed at the end of December, a few days before the official launch of the campaign for the elections to the chambers of agriculture, which begins on January 7 and will determine the new balance of power between agricultural unions.

With AFP

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