Rural Coordination besieged the port of Bordeaux on Wednesday evening. For its part, the FNSEA has already announced that new demonstrations will take place “next Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday”.
20/11/24 – 11:16 p.m. – The prefect of Landes announces that she wants to file a complaint against Rural Coordination
Wednesday evening, Françoise Tahéri, prefect of Landes, announced via a press release that she intends to file a complaint against the Rural Coordination for the damage to “the MSA and DDTM sites in Mont-de-Marsan”. She also wishes to request reimbursement for the costs incurred for the repairs. “These acts are unacceptable and harm the agricultural cause,” she said.
11/20/24 – 10:35 p.m. – Images of the blockade of the port of Bordeaux
This Wednesday evening, the port of Bordeaux was completely blocked by angry farmers from the Lot-et-Garonne Rural Coordination. They denounce “excessive cereal imports”, relays the CLPress press agency on X.
20/11/24 – 9:43 p.m. – Angry farmers set up in front of the Saint-Étienne prefecture
Yesterday, the angry farmers had already made a first stop at the sub-prefecture of Montbrison. This Wednesday evening, it is the prefecture of Saint-Étienne which seems to be besieged by tractors. According to local channel TL7, nearly 200 farmers are there.
20/11/24 – 9:06 p.m. – The blockade of the Montbartier logistics base lifted by the CRS
Mobilized around 7:30 p.m. by the prefect of Tarn-et-Garonne, around sixty CRS managed around 8:30 p.m. to lift the blockade of the Grand Sud Logistique zone of Montbartier, held by nearly 70 demonstrators from the Rural Coordination and their approximately 25 tractors and 30 vehicles, reports The Dispatch. An evacuation which did not really take place peacefully since the angry farmers dumped a lot of waste on the RD 820 roundabout as well as in the rue des Graves before setting it on fire. The firefighters were therefore called to the scene. The convoy then seems to have taken the direction of Lot-et-Garonne.
20/11/24 – 8:14 p.m. – New mobilizations next “Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday”
The actions will continue next week. The boss of the FNSEA, Arnaud Rousseau, announced Wednesday that new demonstrations will take place “next Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday”. The objective remains to “denounce obstacles to agriculture” and “put pressure”. “And, I say it again, always with respect for property and people,” the president of the agricultural union insisted in order to distinguish his demonstrators from those of the Rural Coordination.
20/11/24 – 7:36 p.m. – The port of Bordeaux blocked by farmers
Leaving Agen, in Lot-et-Garonne, at the end of the morning, the convoy of demonstrators from the Rural Coordination made a passage which was, to say the least, noticed on the Bordeaux ring road at the start of the evening. Angry farmers are now blocking the port of Bordeaux. “It’s an entry of goods, an entry of cereals that arrive from everywhere with standards that do not correspond at all to ours,” José Pérez, co-president of the agricultural union in Lot- told the CLPress news agency. et-Garonne.
20/11/24 – 6:46 p.m. – A “small farmers' market” to demonstrate in Strasbourg
The Rural Coordination, already involved in mobilizations in many departments, plans to mobilize in Strasbourg, in Bas-Rhin, this Thursday, November 21. The union will meet from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Place de la République to protest against the free trade treaty between the European Union and the Mercosur countries. But the farmers decided to innovate and demonstrate by organizing a “small farmers' market” offering products from their production without blocking everything in the city center. The Rural Coordination thus wants to stand out from the blocking of the Europe Bridge organized on Monday by the FDSEA of Bas-Rhin. “We don’t want to block people: there will only be around ten tractors, then we will install an arbor with a farmers’ stand to sell farm products,” promises Paul Fritsch, president of the departmental union to France 3 The objective is “not to alienate the consumer”. In addition to the mobilization, farmers will be received by the prefect at the beginning of the afternoon.
20/11/24 – 18:19 – The new promise of a “simplification” of the standards of the Ministry of Agriculture
From the National Assembly, the Minister of Agriculture has once again promised farmers a simplification of administrative procedures. “Under the weight of standards, the French farm is bending dangerously,” said Annie Genevard. The “single administrative control”, which will be put in place next year, will only be “the first stone laid in the building of simplification”, she declared that she wanted to make a “clean slate of unnecessary standards”.
11/20/24 – 5:57 p.m. – In Brittany, the Peasant Confederation denounces the hypocrisy of the FNSEA
The farmers of the Confédération paysanne mobilized in Brittany, more precisely in Ille-et-Vilaine where they gathered in front of the headquarters of the agro-industrial group Avril, in the town of Bruz. Opposed to the free trade treaty with Mercosur, the union denounces the “hypocrisy” of the FNSEA by pointing out the investments of the Avril group, whose chairman of the board of directors is also the president of the FNSEA, Arnaud Rousseau, at Brazil.
20/11/24 – 5:36 p.m. – Farmers mainly supported by the French
The farmers' movement, already supported at the start of the year, is still so for this act 2. 8 out of 10 French people support the mobilization of the agricultural sector according to the Elabe survey carried out for BFMTV and published this Wednesday, November 20. Support which is important and can give weight to the movement and which must be maintained, a point which raises the question of the type of actions to be taken by the unions. Among these French people favorable to the agricultural movement, more than three quarters also align with the opinion of farmers concerning the agreement between the EU and Mercosur: 76% say they are opposed to signing the text.
20/11/24 – 5:15 p.m. – Rural Coordination stops at a Leclerc de Marmande before the rally in Bordeaux
Some farmers from the Rural Coordination on their way to the rally planned in Bordeaux stopped at a Leclerc center in Marmande, in Lot-et-Garonne, to carry out a protest action. A skip full of tires and another of agricultural waste were dumped in front of the entrances to the store, report Sud Ouest journalists. Once the action was carried out, the convoy returned to the road.
20/11/24 – 4:55 p.m. – “We will look at each of these overtranspositions”, Barnier agrees with the farmers in the Senate
From the Senate, this Wednesday afternoon, Prime Minister Michel Barnier spoke about the overtransposition of European standards, a subject on which he had been questioned the same morning by telephone by two officials from Rural Coordination. “Farmers are right to ask that we look, one by one, at European standards and their application here,” said the head of government in the chamber. “The proof is that, over the past twenty years, we have overtransposed a certain number of texts (…) Each of these overtranspositions, when it is not justified, creates somewhere unfair competition, which we create ourselves, against our own companies We will look at each of these overtranspositions”, affirmed the tenant of Matignon.
20/11/24 – 4:31 p.m. – “We are here for as long as it takes”, a central Intermarché store blocked near Montauban
A central Intermarché store is currently blocked near Bressols in Tarn-et-Garonne, not far from Montauban, by activists from the Rural Coordination. “We are here for as long as it takes, at least a few days (…) We are blocking this Intermarché power station, which is the largest in the south of France, with the aim of making the French understand that if there is there are more farmers, there will be nothing left to eat,” explains Serge Bousquet-Cassagne, member of the Lot-et-Garonne Rural Coordination, on BFMTV.
11/20/24 – 4:07 p.m. – A Leclerc logistics platform blocked in Mont-de-Marsan (Landes)
The Leclerc logistics platform in Mont-de-Marsan in Landes affected by blockages. Indeed, this Wednesday, the Rural Coordination set up across the road leading to the platform, with a tractor equipped with a trailer. “No trucks are leaving or coming in,” said Vincent Coco, president of Rural Coordination 40. “The goal is not to target one brand or another (…) we want to create shortages in the stores to show people that without farmers, there is no food”, explains Olivier de Ginestet, corn and chicken producer in Saint-Sever, to South West.
20/11/24 – 3:49 p.m. – “If we have to block, we will block”, farmers from Lot-et-Garonne on their way to Bordeaux
“We're tired of being taken around, we're tired of having oral promises, but nothing concrete”, complains a farmer from Lot-et-Garonne at the microphone of BFMTVaboard his tractor, this Wednesday. The man goes to Bordeaux, as announced by the union, to station himself at strategic points. “Now, as long as we have the concrete, if we have to block, we will block,” he said.
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