IN PICTURES – Anger of farmers: the Manche Rural Coordination leaves traces of its visit to Coutances

Farmers from Rural Coordination met around 3 p.m. in front of the premises of the French Office for Biodiversity in Coutances. Small procession, around fifteen breeders and agricultural workers and six tractors but well-filled trailers, tires, earth, bales of straw, dumped as they go. “Nothing is right, starting with the price and charges“, says Frédéric Marie, breeder in Marchésieux.

This Tuesday, November 26 afternoon, these demonstrators will target several locations in the city. First step therefore in front of the French biodiversity office. “We're fed up with all these standards. We're being cheated. We don't dare to do cleanings for example, we don't know if we have the right, the sanctions can be enormous. It's scary” says Paul-Etienne, dairy farmer in Raids. After dumping earth on the sidewalk, demonstrators deposit corpses of wild boars and foxes in front of the doors of the OFB.

In front of the Biodiversity Office and in front of Manche Nature

Second stop in front of the sub-prefecture “to denounce the overtransposition of standards” and new dumpster dumped. The demonstrators will then go to the headquarters of the environmental association Manche Nature, to place earth and tires in front of the doors and paint this message on the shutters.Leave him alone, let him work“, to denounce theLegal actions against the Genêts sheepfold.

They will make a final stop in front of the Leclerc hypermarket in Coutances to dump tires in front of the entrance, before heading towards Saint-Lô for further actions.