THE IMAGE. Why a Le Havre sign was installed at the entrance to Rouen

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Imagine: you exit the A150 to enter Rouen. You pass near the Kindarena before continuing towards the Flaubert bridge. But when you stop at the red light, a sign displays “Le Havre”and not “Rouen”. Maybe you got lost?

One might think it was a bad joke from a slightly too chauvinistic Le Havre resident. But these are in fact Young Farmers of Seine-Maritime who are behind this unusual installation.

“We don’t really know where we’re going anymore”

Although we were unable to contact them directly, a representative of the National Federation of Agricultural Operators' Unions (FNSEA) ended up explaining to us.

Before we put the signs upside down because we walked on our heads. Now we exchange them because we're being taken for a ride. We don't really know where we're going anymore.

A new “symbol” of the anger of farmers in France. Today, a large majority of the profession is still waiting for “administrative simplification and the lifting of constraints”, as Simon Huet, of FNESA, reported in a previous article.

But there still remains a question: what happened to the “Rouen” sign? If you find him at the entrance to Le Havre soon, you shouldn't be surprised…

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