By tractor or car, farmers from the Rural Coordination (CR) tried in vain this Monday to gather in Paris.
In the capital itself, a few dozen were present Monday morning, particularly from Marne and Aube, and tried to gather at the Trocadéro to reach the Arc de Triomphe. But controlled by the police, they did not succeed.
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Not far from Matignon, seven others accompanied by a goat were “evicted without incident”, according to a police source. The authorities “never wanted to let us enter Paris. We asked for a drop-off point for a rally but we never obtained it,” declared the general secretary of the union Christian Convers, from the Trocadéro, refuting any “intention to block anything”.
On the eve of the start of the electoral campaign for the chambers of agriculture, the “yellow hats” of the second agricultural union want to make their voice heard: against free trade agreements, against unfair competition, including intra -European and against controls on farms.
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In Yvelines, around ten tractors and around fifteen cars forced their way and entered the national road N10, before being blocked at Essarts-le-Roi, we learned from a police source .
In Essonne, a police roadblock was forced by six tractors, which were subsequently intercepted. Farmers were authorized, in a tense climate, to reach with their 21 tractors the site of a Téréos sugar factory located in Artenay in the Loiret; those in personal vehicles have agreed to give up Paris and will leave in three supervised convoys, according to a police source.
In Seine-et-Marne, two small convoys were also contained by the police, from the same source. In the Rhône, around thirty tractors were spotted on a road towards the A7 motorway.
Disturbances south of Lyon
South of Lyon, a snail operation organized by a convoy of farmers, supported by Rural Coordination, is disrupting traffic. At midday, around twenty tractors were installed on the M7, the road which extends the A7 as it approaches Lyon, in the Marseille-Lyon direction. “A lane of traffic is maintained,” said the Rhône prefecture on X.
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“We are not blocking a back-to-school day,” says the minister
While saying she understood the “concern” of the operators, the Minister of Agriculture Annie Genevard warned that there was no question of letting the capital be paralyzed. “No, we are not blocking, on a back-to-school day,” she warned, interviewed this Monday morning on TF1. “ All help [fiscales et sociales] as soon as the budget is voted on, it will be delivered,” she also assured. The minister mentioned a mobilization of 200 farmers and around fifty tractors throughout the territory.
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Agricultural unions received on January 13
Recalling that Prime Minister François Bayrou would receive the agricultural unions next Monday, the minister considered that “the urgency that they are putting forward to be received now, here right away” was not really justified.
On the ground, the demonstrators deplored being blocked simply because of “wearing a yellow hat” and said they were determined to move forward, while a ban on gatherings lasted until 12 p.m. Monday. “Our goal is to try to have a meeting with the Prime Minister or to speak with parliamentarians, but here they are completely preventing us from demonstrating,” said Mr. Convers, briefly arrested by the police on Sunday afternoon at the moment. where he arrived – by car – to participate in a gathering at Place du Brazil in Paris.
The president of the CR de l’Aube, Christophe Sichnknecht, highlighted the urgency of certain situations: “We need answers”. “Today is the wake-up call, we are capable of going wherever we want,” he assured.
EU/Mercosur agreement: the “mass has not been said”, assures Macron
Farmers are protesting in particular against the signing of a free trade agreement between the EU and Latin American Mercosur countries. On this subject, Emmanuel Macron assured Monday that the “mass was not said”. “We will continue to forcefully defend the coherence of our commitments,” he said.
