11:30 – In Port-la-Nouvelle (Aude), access to the port blocked
This Wednesday morning, around 50 farmer members of the JA de l'Aude blocked access to the port of Port-la-Nouvelle, around fifty kilometers from Perpignan. They disrupt the entry and exit of trucks, particularly those coming from the site's oil depot. “We are in a department where we are experiencing a terrible drought, we are asking for crop insurance to be remodeled and an emergency fund to get through the year,” says Loïc Escourrou, president of the Young Farmers of Aude, to France 3 Occitanie.
11:07 – A roadblock erected near an Auchan supermarket in Nîmes
After emptying trucks full of lambs and pigs from Belgium, in front of the Crédit Agricole in Nîmes, the farmers present on site are now setting up a blockade “around the roundabout which leads to the Auchan supermarket, in Cap Costières”, we learns France Bleu Gard Lozère.
11:01 – First “light clashes” between farmers and police, in Nîmes
Early this morning, farmers in Gard made themselves heard. In Nîmes, a concrete block wall was erected in front of the Mutuelle sociale agricole by farmers. Shortly before 9 a.m., the station deteriorated with “first light clashes” observed with the police, as indicated by France Bleu Gard Lozère. Apples were thrown at the police. Slurry was also dumped on the MSA building in Nîmes.
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