Anger of farmers: where will they demonstrate and what to expect this Monday in France and Occitanie?

Convoys of tractors, “fires of anger”, filter dams… The anger of farmers will resume during a day of national mobilization this Monday, November 18, 2024. The National Federation of Farmers' Unions (FNSEA) and its ally Youth farmers (JA) have chosen to relaunch last year's movement by taking part in particular against the free trade agreement between the EU and Mercosur. A date of demonstration which corresponds with the opening of the G20 summit in Rio, Brazil this Monday.

Do not “block” or “annoy” the French

The actions called “Fires of Wrath” are announced by numerous local branches of the FNSEA. These lightings of fires would take place in particular on the evening of Monday in Dijon (Côte-d'Or), in Caen (Calvados), in Montauban (Tarn-et-Garonne) or even in Millau (Aveyron). A little more than 80 farmer mobilizations are planned for this Monday and Tuesday throughout the territory, according to president of the FNSEA Arnaud Rousseau. Filter blockages are planned in Nîmes (Gard) or Sablons (Isère). Snail operations could also be organized at certain points. According to Arnaud Rousseau, speaking to BFMTV this Sunday, the objective of the mobilization is not to “block” or “annoy” the French, but “to send them the message that the situation facing agriculture today is an emergency situation, dramatic in some places.”

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On the Rural Coordination side, the second agricultural union in the country, we are calling for mobilization in certain sectors from Tuesday, November 19. This is the case in Auch (Gers), Toulouse and also in Guéret (Creuse). “We will go before the prefectures on November 19 to reiterate our demands,” confided the president of Rural Coordination, Véronique Le Floc’h, toWest France.

What mobilization in the former Midi Pyrénées?

In Haute-Garonne initiatives are announced throughout the country. In Muretain, this November 18 at 6:45 p.m., certain fields and several roundabouts will be set on fire. In the Gersthe call is launched in Auch this Monday, from 3 p.m. The operation could take the form of a tractor parade from the lower town (Patte-d'Oie) to the upper town (prefecture).

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The farmers of Tarn will mobilize in Albi and could settle on a portion of the Albigensian ring road, between the Séquestre and Terssac interchanges. Farmers are also planning “visits” to the administrative city and the prefecture. Another gathering is planned in the department, in Lescure. In the Lotthe demonstrators plan to meet on three strategic roundabouts, in Figeac, Gourdon and Cahors. In the latter, a snail operation with a procession of tractors will be carried out to the prefecture. In Aveyronthey will light “distress lights” from Millau to Villefranche-de-Rouergue. And in Aude, the winegrowers' union and the breeders' union will join the movement to “light fires on several roundabouts”.

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The next day, it was the second agricultural union in France which called for mobilization in Auch, in Gers, or in front of the Haute-Garonne prefecture in Toulouse. But it is in Agen, in the Lot-et-Garonnethat the demonstrators could be the most angry. CR 47 plans to block the department prefecture.