The essentials
- The president of the majority agricultural union FNSEA announced on Wednesday new actions “next Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday” on the ground”, which will target administrations in order to denounce “obstructions” to agriculture.
- “Attacking property, attacking people, permanently blocking the country, that is not acceptable,” Minister of Agriculture Annie Genevard declared on France 2 this morning.
- “We want to cause chaos and a food shortage,” assured Serge Bousquet-Cassagne, CR figure in the South-West, yesterday.
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8:59 a.m. | “Calling for chaos, I consider that to be totally irresponsible”
“When we are in charge, threatening chaos on the agricultural level is neither our DNA nor our will. Calling for chaos, I consider that to be totally irresponsible,” declared this Wednesday morning Arnaud Rousseau, boss of the FNSEA, on Franceinfo. “I'm not here to comment on what rural coordination is doing. If some people think that chaos is the future of agriculture, they will take responsibility.”
8:50 a.m. | The FNSEA announces a new mobilization next “Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday”
Arnaud Rousseau, president of the FNSEA, on Franceinfo: “Starting next week, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, we will be on the ground again to denounce the obstacles to agriculture.”
8:16 a.m. | Return to the damage in Creuse
Farmers attacked the premises of the Mutualité sociale agricole and the French Biodiversity Office on Tuesday, in Guéret, in Creuse. Our article.
7:50 a.m. | “Long-term blockade of the country is not acceptable”
“Protesting against Mercosur, expressing your concerns, demanding progress in a certain number of areas is legitimate, believes the minister. Attacking property, attacking people, permanently blocking the country, that, This is not acceptable,” Minister of Agriculture Annie Genevard declared this morning on France 2.
07:00 | A “sustainable blockage (…) over several days” on the A9?
On the A9 motorway, at the Boulou tollbooth (Pyrénées-Orientales), farmers from the CR established a roadblock on Tuesday, blocking goods trucks but allowing cars to pass, around ten kilometers from the Spanish border.
“We are going to block the A9, but also the fuel depots, the ports, the purchasing centers. We want to cause chaos and a food shortage,” assured Serge Bousquet-Cassagne, figure of the CR in the South West, present in Boulou.
On the A9, “a river of fruits and vegetables arriving from Spain”, he envisages “a lasting blockage (…) over several days”.
