Several entities are targeted on Boulevard Salvador Allende in Nîmes. Follow the mobilization live.
Anger is brewing again among farmers! This Wednesday morning, farmers from all over Gard are mobilizing in Nîmes and carrying out several strikes. Several services are targeted: the DDTM, the Nîmes Payment Services Agency and the MSA. Actions to be found in images. Traffic is currently severely disrupted on the Nîmes ring road.
8h22. In front of the MSA, in Nîmes, the farmers continue their actions of the day before leaving towards the Mas de Cheylon.
8h14. Head of the FDSEA in Gard, David Sève explains the reasons for the discontent and the actions of farmers.
8:10 a.m.. Farmers wall up the entrance to the MSA, in Nîmes, on Boulevard Salvador Allende.
Farmers wall up the entrance to the MSA • Photo Anthony Maurin
7h52. The farmers are preparing to leave and stay on the Nîmes ring road… heading to another agricultural entity after the Payment Service Agency.
7h46. At the Nîmes Payment Services Agency, farmers recall their presence and their dissatisfaction. It is the beginning of a struggle which is beginning and which will rise to a crescendo.
Municipal signs dumped in the premises • Photo Anthony Maurin
7h37. Farmers take action at the Payment Services Agency at Georges Besse Park. Salvador Allende Boulevard is temporarily blocked.
7h11. David Sève, head of the FDSEA, reassembles his troops alongside Romain Angelras, of the Young Farmers of Gard. The departure for the day of action is imminent, the standoff will intensify and last over time.
6h12. While an action is underway at the DDTM (Nîmes), the tractors of Gard farmers are converging towards the Chamber of Agriculture which will be the starting point for other mobilizations today.
