the blockade of the La Mude roundabout is lifted

The slowdown at the Mude roundabout is lifted

The slowdown due to the presence of tractors at the Mude roundabout is lifted. The tractors rushed onto the ring road which leads to Avenue de Limoges.

“I understand their demands but I also have a job”

Other motorists are less accommodating. Corinne, motorist stuck at the Mude roundabout: “I come from La Rochelle and I have to go to Paris then to Lille. I understand their demands but I also have a job,” says the forty-year-old who would have liked them to go demonstrate in Paris or Brussels.

CPAM users, La Mude roundabout, in solidarity

Users of the Primary Health Insurance Fund, La Mude roundabout, are patient. Many say they support the movement.

The La Mude roundabout blocked

Tractors arrive in front of Macif headquarters

Around twenty tractors pass in front of Carrefour

The convoy made up of around twenty tractors has just passed in front of the Carrefour supermarket in the Clou Bouchet district, and is heading towards Avenue de la Rochelle.

Towards the Mude roundabout in Bessines

Before going to La Brèche, the farmers planned to make a detour via the Mude roundabout in Bessines.

Tractors run along Clou-Bouchet

The farmers have just left Noron and will soon pass through Clou-Bouchet in Niort. They will then head towards the Mude roundabout in Bessines.

Firefighter intervention near SMACL

Firefighters intervene to put out a fire started by farmers at the Smacl roundabout, on the edge of the Exhibition Center.

In working order, direction La Brèche

In the parking lot of the Niort-Noron exhibition center, the tractors are in working order. They head towards Place de la Brèche. No stops are planned.

“Young people and older people alike must mobilize”

Present during the first day of the demonstration, Monday November 18, 2024, Félix Moreau, 27, returned by tractor to continue the mobilization. “Young people and older people alike must mobilize. It’s important to support each other”explains the agricultural employee specializing in the organic world. Alongside his colleagues, the young man does not want to give up.

Waiting in the cold at the Parc des Expos

The farmers have just closed the cattle truck where they had breakfast, a sign that they are ready to leave Noron to reach Place de la Brèche. But before reaching the final goal, they will pass through the ring road.

Municipal and national police on site

Still setting up at the Noron Exhibition Center

In Noron, farmers decorate tractors before the parade

“We won’t leave before 9:30 a.m.”

The program for this Tuesday is as planned

Eleven tractors and around twenty farmers are currently at the Noron Exhibition Center where some of them have slept. The program for this Tuesday has not changed. The farmers will leave within 45 minutes to head towards the ring road with the aim of reaching the Place de la Brèche where the Deux-Sèvriens “are invited to share a friendly meal”.

Follow with us this second day of mobilization of farmers in Niort.