New day of mobilization for farmers and their union representatives this Wednesday, November 27, 2024. We are forwarding it to you in our departments, Indre, Indre-et-Loire, Loir-et-Cher, Deux-Sèvres and Vienna.
> Hello and welcome to this live broadcast, supplied by our editorial staff in Indre, Indre-et-Loire, Loir-et-Cher, Deux-Sèvres and Vienne, and edited by Sébastien Bourcier.
13 h 25. Escorted by the gendarmerie, the twenty tractors began the snail operation, on the ring road south of Tours. This procession will join another, leaving from the north, at La Riche.
13 h 20. At the toll of The Crib (Deux-Sèvres), a group has just started the barbecue while two others check the trucks, mainly refrigerated, which arrive slowly.
13 h 10. HAS Chambray-lès-Tours (Indre-et-Loire), 18 tractors and around forty farmers gathered at the racecourse roundabout. A snail operation is planned in a few minutes, towards Place Jean-Jaurès at Toursvia the ring road. At the same time, another departure has been organized since Saint-Cyr-sur-Loirenorth of Tours.
13 h. Musical arrival for the dozen tractors from Vienne which arrive at Poitiersaround the Folie roundabout…
12 h 40. At the toll of The Cribthe JA 79 affixed their first anti-foreign products poster on the trailer of a heavy goods vehicle driven by a Vendée truck driver. Among the goods he transported, 1 kg of clementines from Morocco. Not enough for it to be stuck in place. “Farmers have to make themselves heard and again, I think they are nice”reacts the thirty-year-old before leaving.
12 h 05. Around ten tractors from South Vienna (Vivonne, La Villedieu-du-Clain, Civray) join the Folie roundabout in Poitiers-north before an action announced for this afternoon.
11 h 55. HAS The Crib (Deux-Sèvres), eight tractors parked a little after 11:30 a.m. at the exit of the A 83 toll: this is where the farmers will check the contents of the refrigerated trucks that will pass by, with a filter barrier . Finally, farmers should not build a filter dam directly around the roundabout of departmental 611, a short distance away. Around twenty farmers have positioned themselves: there are nine tractors in all, eight of which have a trailer. The national gendarmerie has just arrived and is preparing to secure the action.
11 h 30. In the south of Deux-Sèvrestwo convoys of tractors left Champdeniers and Prahecq in the morning. The JA 79 should meet at La Crèche a little before 11:45 a.m., according to the estimate of one of the mobilized farmers.
11 h 20. After the demonstration of FDSEA and JA 36 farmers, Tuesday November 26 in Chateaurouxthe environmental defense association, Indre Nature, held a press conference this Wednesday morning to review the episode of the day before. Its headquarters was then targeted by around forty farmers who dumped straw and gravel on the building located on Avenue Marcel-Lemoine. Six Indre Nature employees were still working on the premises and felt very alone in the face of this act of intimidation. Through its president, Jacques Lucbert, Indre Nature regretted not having been supported by the prefect of Indre and announced that it would file a complaint against X.
11 h 10. Aidan Roberts, general secretary of JA 79, announces that the mobilization could continue on Thursday, November 28 in the Deux-Sèvres : it remains to ratify this decision and, if necessary, to decide on its form.
11 h. A new convoy is formed around Poitiers.
10 h 50. In Indre-et-Loirethe FNSEA and the JA are organizing an event which will begin at midday in Tours. Farmers have planned a snail operation on the Tours ring road which will begin around 1 p.m. The tractor convoys will meet in the heart of the city in the afternoon. The farmers planned to break camp in the early evening.
10 h 40. In theInternal, a press conference organized by Indre Nature is underway. At the end of the day the day before, its headquarters was targeted by farmers.
10 h 30. If the day promises to be calm in Loir-et-Cherseveral actions are planned for this weekend. Rural Coordination, 2e agricultural union of the department, planned to participate in a regional demonstration Thursday. Around thirty tractors will meet early in Blois. Then from 8:30 a.m., they will take the highway to arrive in Orléans around 11 a.m. “The idea is to take two lanes and leave the 3e for trucks and cars »explains Frédéric Prégeant, treasurer of the union. Objective: meet the regional prefect Sophie Brocas, to ask for the assurance of having only one inspection per year on the farms – a demand made by the union since the winter of 2023-2024.
10 h 20. In the Viennathe prefect Serge Boulanger, newly arrived (taking office Monday November 25), immediately committed to welcoming the agricultural unions. This has already been done for the JA, Rural Coordination and the FNSEA. This is planned for the Peasant Confederation. In a press release dated this Wednesday, the FNSEA 86 welcomes this meeting, but it also calls “all farmers to mobilize and support the ongoing protests”.
10 h 10. In the Deux-SèvresYoung Farmers continue the movement. From 11 a.m., it will take the form of a filter barrier around the La Crèche roundabout, on the departmental 611, at the exit of the A10 and A83 motorway junction. Around twenty tractors are expected, double the number of demonstrators: the latter will check the contents of the refrigerated trucks which will pass by. The operation, the only one planned for this Wednesday in the department, is supposed to last until 11 p.m.
10 h. New day of mobilization for the world of agriculture, this Wednesday, November 27. With Mercosur still in the crosshairs of the four agricultural unions. And everywhere, particularly in Val de Loire and Poitou, striking actions.
