the punchy action of Rural Coordination in large areas of Dordogne

Around twenty farmers from the Dordogne Rural Coordination (CR) emptied the shelves of supermarkets in the south of the department this Wednesday, December 11 afternoon: the Carrefour Market in Prigonrieux and the Leclerc hypermarket in La Cavaille, in Bergerac . The agricultural union targeted imported agri-food products, which directly compete with local producers.

They thus got their hands on New Zealand lamb, beef from Ireland, Slovakia or Poland, but also on frozen or canned vegetables. And even on the jars of Lot-et-Garonne jam maker Lucien Georgelin, who imports fruit from Italy and Spain, according to them.

No theft or damage, the action was intended above all to be symbolic. The merchandise remained there, stacked in dozens of supermarket carts. They were surrounded by a yellow banner, the color of the union, which proclaimed: “These products are killing our French farmers. »