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The mobilization of angry farmers continues this Thursday, November 21, 2024 around Toulouselike everywhere in France. An update on current actions in the region, a stronghold of the protest, where it is the Coordination rurale who leads the revolt, while the Young farmers and the FDSEA indicated that they would (re)mobilize next week.

Haute-Garonne: trucks blocked at the French-Spanish border

In Haute-Garonne, angry farmers are mobilized on the side of Fosin the Pyrenees, the French-Spanish border. At the call of Rural Coordination 31, a ten farmerswith a big handle of tractors, blocks the transit international heavy weights.

Under the eye of the gendarmes, who ensure traffic, “we prevent the passage of trucks at the old border post,” says Maxim Raudpresident of the Rural Coordination of Haute-Garonne, to Toulouse News. “The night was short, we slept three hours last night, but the mobilization continues.”

We block all trucks carrying goods, but we let those with live animals through, as well as any light vehicles.

“We will stay there indefinitely”, warns the boss of the CR31

“We will stay there indefinitely,” warns the boss of Rural Coordination 31, who demands “that the State speaks to us and tells us things that will work”.

He summarizes the main demands of his union: the abandonment of Mercosurthe establishment of a “dignified minimum income” per farmer (“at least a minimum wage because it is today 400 euros in Haute-Garonne”), but also “the alignment of standards on a European scale”, or even “the reduction in costs » which weigh on their farms.

Tensions between farmers in Tarn-et-Garonne, according to the prefect

On the side of Tarn-et-Garonnealways at the initiative of Rural Coordination, these are farmers of Lot-et-Garonne who blocked the logistics base of the Intermarché group located in Montbartier, near Montauban.

According to Vincent Robertiprefect of Tarn-et-Garonne, 25 tractors, 30 light vehicles and 70 demonstrators blocked the entry and exit of trucks, preventing any warehouse activity which supplies more than 200 points of sale with fresh and ultra-fresh products in particular.

The prefect relates that “faced with this abnormal situation, where representatives of the Rural Coordination of the neighboring department carried out action without consultation with Rural Coordination 82″, he “ordered evacuation of demonstrators ». More than 100 law enforcement personnel, including 60 CRS, were mobilized for this purpose.

At 7:30 p.m., the protesters left the site. Initially, they dumped and set waste on fire in the area and its access points.

While the site was being cleaned, traffic was disrupted for a while on site, before being completely restored during the night.

An Aldi plant blocked in Saint-Sulpice

East of Toulouse, members of the rural coordination of Aveyron and Tarn planned to arrive in the Pink City on Wednesday evening. They finally stopped on the way, at Saint-Sulpice-la-Pointeon the border between Tarn and Haute-Garonne, along the A68.

Around fifty of them are still mobilized this Thursday afternoon on the Aldi purchasing centerwhich serves approximately 90 stores of the brand in the South of France. “Usually, 40 to 80 trucks leave the plant every day. We emptied the dumpsters and closed the gates, no more trucks are coming in or out,” says Éloi Nespoulous.

Co-president of the Aveyron Rural Coordination, the latter is dairy sheep breeder in Ségala, his grievances are the same as those of his colleagues in the region: “End Mercosur, lower charges and harmonize standards in Europe”. With his fellow farmers, they intend to stay in Saint-Sulpice until Friday, and do not rule out continuing the journey into the Toulouse metropolis to target another purchasing center.

A roundabout blocked on the Auch side

West of Toulouse this time, as reported Occitanie Newsafter blocking the city center ofAlso for almost two days, farmers from Gers and their tractors migrated towards strategic roundabout of Saint-Cricqthe gateway to the Gers prefecture from the Pink City.

Other farmers mobilized north of Toulouse

Other farmers mobilized north of Toulouse, near Castelnau-d'Estrétefondsnear the Eurocentre exit of the A62.

More information to come…

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