covered radars, torn down panels, fires… the general mobilization is organized

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Weariness, frustration and finally, anger. After a major movement at the start of 2024, farmers decided to leave for a new general mobilizationin this month of November 2024.

Wednesday November 13, 2024, the FNSEA called for national mobilization, “ from Monday 18 and 19 November throughout the territory. The goal: to put “pressure on the government of Michel Barnier”, which “listens to them, but does nothing concrete”.

On the sidelines of this national appeal, farmers and organizations decided to launch local actions from this Thursday, November 14, 2024. And with the same slogan everywhere: start slowly, before hardening your tonein the event of government inaction. Actu.fr takes stock.

Blocked roundabouts and covered speed cameras

“The movement should be even harder than last time, because we are very angry. The promises made to us at the start of the year by the government have not been kept,” said David Labbé, president of the poultry sector at the FDSEA of Côtes-d’Armor and breeder in Plourivo, with The Echo of Armor and Argoat.

Initially, the farmers of the Guingamp region decided to gather on a roundabout in Callacas well as in Plouisy, this Thursday, November 14, 2024, from 7 p.m. Large stores and the prefecture could again be targeted in a second phase.

Same procedure in the Meuse, reports news Meusewhere the Young Farmers union is calling for a rally on the roundabouts this Thursday, November 14, at 8 p.m.

In Oise, the president of the FDSEA, Régis Desrumeaux, calls for the covering of radars on the department's roads from this Thursday, November 14, 2024 as well. “It’s symbolic, we estimate that the state is making us lose moneythat we can't get things to come to fruition. We will also press where it hurts “, says the farmers’ representative.

The farmers' unions in the department have also announced a demonstration this Monday, November 18, 2024 in Beauvais, indicates Oise news. The farmers will converge their tractors towards the Departmental Territorial Directorate (DDT), but do not wish to “target the highways”.

“Pyres of anger” in Haut-Rhin and Dijon

In Haut-Rhin, young farmers will lighting “pyres of wrath” from this Thursday, November 14, 2024, until Saturday 16. In total, eight fires will be lit on different sites in the department, reports news Haut-Rhinand will remain lit for a good part of the evening.

In Côte-d'Or, farmers will also light a “fire of anger”, in Dijon, Monday November 18, 2024. Fromnews Côte-d’Orthe latter ensure that this “peaceful assembly” will not cause any disruption to road traffic, while emphasizing that this action is only the first act of a broader mobilization.

Same story in Orne, where “fires of anger” will be lit in five municipalities, on Monday November 18, 2024. The unions have in their sights the free trade agreement with Mercosuraccording to a press release relayed by the Orne Journal.

Tear-off of panels in Deux-Sèvres and Haute-Garonne

A great classic of farmers' actions, the covering and tearing off panels will multiply in the coming days. In Deux-Sèvres, the FNSEA and the Young Farmers announced that from Sunday November 17, 2024, the panels in many municipalities in the department will be covered.

In their press release, taken up by news Deux-Sèvresthey specify that “these symbolic actions will precede larger-scale mobilizations which will take place in Niort as well as in other municipalities in the department. » Last week, farmers had already torn down signs to place them in front of the prefecture.

In Occitania, Young Farmers and the FDSEA on the one hand, and the Rural Coordination on the other, are calling to meet again this Monday, November 18, 2024. Several local events will begin, each department organizing itself at its own pace.

Mathieu Maronese, deputy secretary general of Young Farmers in Haute-Garonne, gave some details to news Toulouse.

It will start slowly with the tearing down of panels on a local scale for example, but not on a large scale for the moment. Not before the end of the month at least, when we will have real blockages in big cities. This is the beginning of the beginning.

Threats of blockage in the Gers

In the Gers, farmers seem to have got a little head startsince after several weeks of tearing down panels and covering radars, the Rural Coordination wants to go further.

“We call on all Gers farmers to update themselves on their farms, to finish sowing and to mobilize in Auch on Tuesday November 19, 2024, to ask for a final burst to the government,” explains the union to Occitani newse.

If nothing changes, Lionel Candelon, leader of the Gers Rural Coordination, plans to block food freight from November 20, “in order to give the government a taste of what our country will be like tomorrow without a farmer.”

Finally, in Ille-et-Vilaine, in Sarthe and in Lot, thediscussions between agricultural unions are still ongoing to decide what course of action to follow, report news Rennes, The Little Courieret news Lotbut the farmers say they are all ready to mobilize again.

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