15 h 15 | At 3:15 p.m. the farmers of CR87 are still in front of the prefecture. The president and a small group were received by the prefect of Haute-Vienne. Actions are coming in the city center of Limoges.
14 h 10 | In Limoges, the mobilized Rural Coordination farmers are having lunch in front of the prefecture. They must be received at 2:30 p.m. by the prefect. “We are going to tell him everything we have to tell him,” explains Thomas Hegarty, president of CR87. We've written him a lot of letters lately with very few responses, so we're going to explain, because it's no longer working. If we're all here, there's a problem. »
12 h 40 | The Haute-Vienne Rural Coordination is still in front of the prefecture in Limoges with between 30 and 40 tractors and around a hundred mobilized farmers. Smoke bombs are lit.
11 h 00 | The first tractors arrive in the city center of Limoges, near the prefecture around 11 a.m. this Tuesday, November 19.
“Mercosur if it passes, it breaks”, we can read on the signs.
“We are here to follow up on our demands at the beginning of the year,” explains Thomas Hégarty, president of the Haute-Vienne Rural Coordination. On our farms, nothing has changed. It's still so complicated. The administrative burden is still as high as ever. We had a lot of problems this year which accumulated between health problems and poor harvests. The treasuries are more than dry. And Mercosur comes on top of all that. We, it’s clear, we don’t want it. »
According to the president of CR87, the farmers will be received at 2:30 p.m. by the prefect, “and afterward, we will see,” he says, “we will certainly take targeted actions.”
This Monday, it was the FDSEA which opened the ball with a giant barbecue at Place Denis-Dussoubs at midday, then the main roundabouts of the Limoges agglomeration were “decorated” in the afternoon with banners for express the profession's rejection of the free trade agreement with several Latin American countries.
On site, Jean-Adrien Truchassou
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