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Nov 19, 2024 at 4:01 p.m.
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After a first movement by the FNSEA and Young Farmers, Monday November 18, 2024, the Rural Coordination demonstrates in turn, this Tuesday November 19, 2024. Its president, Véronique Le Floc'hwarned on the microphone of France Blue : “we want concrete solutions and this time, we will get them, otherwise it will continue. »
In response to this second day of farmer mobilization, Matignon announced this Tuesday that the government was going to propose a debate in Parliament followed by a vote on the EU-Mercosur agreement, hotly contested by farmers.
The President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macronspoke on X, this Tuesday, November 19, 2024. “On the EU-Mercosur agreement, we are firm and clear: we have quality agriculture who made a lot of effort. Like many other Europeans, we want to preserve it. »
The situation is igniting in Bordeaux
The “fires of distress” mobilized, Monday evening, 6836 farmers with 1898 agricultural machinesaccording to authorities. “A fire of anger” notably lit on Quai des Chartrons in Bordeaux (Gironde).
Among their demandsthey are asking for a reduction in restrictive standards, a tax reduction, in particular on energy taxes, and concerning the EU-Mercosur agreements, “it's chaos, the red line not to be crossed”, confided a member of the Rural Coordination to our local editorial staffBordeaux news.
This Tuesday morning in Bordeaux, the situation has not really changed, except that it is the Rural Coordination which took over. Very early in the morning, a procession of tractors and light vehicles took over the ring road to head towards the prefecture. The farmers took the opportunity to pop in front of the town hall of Pessac and dumping manure and tiresreports Bordeaux news.
Farmers also set Périgueux ablaze
Yesterday evening around 8 p.m., Place Yves-Guena in Périgueux (Dordogne) caught fire. Nearly 150 farmers, who came with around fifty tractorsdemonstrated around the barbecues installed by the FNSEA and the Young Farmers, reports our local editorial staff Succeed in Périgord.
Concern can be read on the lips of the farmers present. “Livestock prices are not bad but they are not enough. Between the loads that fly awaythe cattle health crisis that we are facing head-on and the vaccinations required…”, testifies David Sautet, a breeder, to one of our journalists.
The latter is convinced that opening the market for South American products will only make the situation worse. “It will flood the market with cheap and poor quality products. We won't be able to compete. »
This Tuesday, several dozen tractors joined the Dordogne prefecture, located in Périgueux, at the call of the Rural Coordination, around the same slogan: “We always walk on our heads”, according to farmers cited by franceinfo.
In the Oise, a wall of concrete blocks, tires, manure,
Mobilized in Beauvais (Oise), Monday evening, the farmers did not do half measures and took several actions to express their anger. The department's growers and breeders targeted the offices of the French Biodiversity Office (OFB), responsible for monitoring standards on their farms, our editorial staff informs.Oise news.
The farmers have built a concrete block wall in front of the entrance to the building and hung a “for sale” sign on its facade. Before dump piles of tires and manure. A way of denouncing the unannounced checks on the standards that they regularly undergo.
The land is our working tool. If we pollute it, we will no longer produce anything. And a land that no longer produces, it's our money that is at stake. We are the first ecologists.
On the gates of the Oise prefecture, they hung road signs which they had torn off in several communes of the department. In the night they used bird scaring gas cannons to be heard.
In Normandy, farmers are up in arms
Monday evening, farmers gathered at the François I lockis in Le Havre (Seine-Maritime) for sound the alarm.
Emmanuel Roch, president of the Young Farmers of Normandy, speaks to our editorial staff 76 actu : “In the agreement with Mercosur, 100,000 tonnes of bovine meat arrive on our territory with free access. We know how to produce well but tax-free entry fees will compete with our products. »
In the Channel, farmers also say “No to Mercosur”
On the evening of Monday November 18, 2024, around a hundred farmers from La Manche installed construction site radars facing the sea to say “No to Mercosur”. A symbolic action “to monitor imports coming by sea”, explains Jean-Michel Hamel, president of the FDSEA of La Manche, to our editorial team La Presse de la Manche.
A year ago, signs in thousands of municipalities in France were symbolically turned around the slogan “We walk on our heads”. The farmers of the FDSEA and the Young Farmers of La Manche reiterated their action, this time by taping fake signs with the word “Mercosur” crossed out in red.
After the panels returned, the panels taped
In Brittany, but also in Loire" rel="tag">Pays de la Loire, farmers have decided to tarpaulin city signs to denounce Mercosur.
This is the case in the country of Vitréwhere the entry and exit signs for the municipalities of Vitré, Argentré-du-Plessis, Étrelles and La Guerche-de-Bretagne were found with tarpaulins “Agri en danger”, “Santos JA FDSEA”, “Sao Paulo JA” or even “No Mercosur”, points out The Vitré Journal.
A tarpaulin in reference to Mercosura project intended to liberalize agriculture between the European Union and the five Latin American countries (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Bolivia).
In the country of Châteaubriant, same story. Monday evening, around thirty farmers invaded the Europe roundabout using around ten tractors. They also installed several tarpaulins before making a firereports our local editorial staff The Scout of Châteaubriant.
Last year we remained respectful of property and people, but we risk raising our voices if the Mercosur agreement is signed.
Blocking the A9 motorway: like déjà vu
This Tuesday, in the south of France, hundreds of farmers from Hérault, Aude and Pyrénées-Orientales decided to unite at the level of Perthus toll of the A9 motorwaynear Spain, informs our local editorial staff ofnews Perpignan.
They intend to block the border for several days in a south-north direction to draw attention to their difficulties. “We are here to last,” warn the demonstrators.
The president of CR47, Serge Bousquet-Cassagne, present on site, did not mince his words either, warning the State and the police that farmers would be ready to “burn everything if they kick us out in a bad way.”
Actions are expected to continue on Wednesday. The Rural Coordination, for its part, promises “an agricultural revolt” with a “food freight blockage” in the South-West if she still does not get a response.
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