At the Schap logistics base in Ruffec, Rural Coordination has started its headquarters

“We want to show the population that without a farmer, there is nothing left to eat in the stores. We arrive this Wednesday evening, it's the beginning and we don't know when we will leave. » Some see themselves staying “several days, several weeks if necessary”. In a quasi-military organization, the CR peasants set up their “life base” under the eye of the gendarmes. A canteen under a bike shelter, generators, speakers that blare music… And food to last for days. “We are not about to leave, we are equipped to stay,” says François Turpeau. “The goal is that there will no longer be any trucks that can come in and out. » Near the brazier, we also found Laëtitia Plumat head of the list for the CR in Charente for the next elections to the chamber. “Mercosur is really the last straw,” she said. “The guys have nothing left to lose!” We're being pushed around, we put pressure on us several months ago and nothing happened. » Around the tractors, Charentais farmers from Courcôme, Chabrac, Chabanais… But also from Nièvre and even from Drôme who extended the congress from Poitiers to Ruffec.

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This Wednesday evening, in total, around a hundred farmers were in front of the entrance to the base.

This Thursday morning, the blockages are expected to intensify. Convoys leave Roullet and La Couronne to block the Intermarché base in Roullet. Two other processions will leave from Chasseneuil and Rouillac to converge towards the Lidl base in Vars. In Ruffec, the members of CR 86 must receive reinforcement from other Charente farmers.