The commercial port of Bordeaux is at a standstill this Thursday morning after blockades by farmers from Rural Coordination. The protests could spread to other major cities as early as next week.
08:51 – “The cause is just, but there are limits”, Retailleau sets his red lines
Faced with the first violence observed during the farmers’ demonstrations, the Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau was firm on the response to be given to the excesses, this Thursday morning at the microphone of Europe 1: “The instructions given to the prefects of areas are clear. I said that they (the farmers, editor’s note) had every right to demonstrate. On the other hand, there are red lines: no harm to property or people,” he said. declared.
He continues: “When I see, that undoubtedly, a member of the Rural Coordination burned the DDTM in Mont-de-Marsan while there were personnel inside, this is not acceptable. I I asked that there be systematically, when this type of action occurs, a report to the courts so that the culprits can be prosecuted. The cause is just, but there are limits, for farmers, they are the same. that for all of our fellow citizens (…) I am not part-time Minister of the Interior When we want to restore republican order, we must impose it with fair rules,” explained the first cop in France.
08:24 – Farmers are thinking about “investing” in Toulouse very quickly
If Bordeaux is the only large city impacted – for the moment – by the farmers’ demonstrations, farmers in the South West could soon head towards Toulouse to express their dissatisfaction, particularly with the free trade agreement between the EU and Mercosur. As indicated La Dépêche du Midithis Thursday morning, “farmers from the north-west of Haute-Garonne met at the Castelnau d’Estrétefonds entry roundabout on Wednesday evening. They plan to ‘invest’ in Toulouse next Wednesday”.
Words which fit with the desire of the Rural Coordination to continue the blocking points “next Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday”, as announced at the start of the week. A month earlier, the Rural Coordination already explained that it wanted to “paralyze and starve Toulouse”, if the government did not respond to its expectations quickly, at the microphone of RMC.
08:15 – Why block the port of Bordeaux?
The choice of the commercial port of Bordeaux is strategic for the farmers of Rural Coordination 47, who left from Lot-et-Garonne to make themselves heard. First: the blocking of cereal imports from several European countries. Indeed, the union considers that European countries like Ukraine exert unfair competition on French farmers. “It is through these ports that imported cereals pass, which are not subject to the same standards as ours, and this is something that we want to denounce,” indicates Karine Duc, one of the leaders of the movement .
In addition, this blockade allows control of one of the largest oil sites. “There is nothing coming in and nothing going out,” said a farmer on site at BFMTV. It now remains to know the government’s response, without which, the men and women of the CR47 present on site will not move. This Thursday morning, at 8:15 a.m., the port of Bordeaux is still blocked.
08:02 – The port of Bordeaux blocked this Thursday, farmers decided to stay
The country’s seventh port in terms of commercial traffic is at a standstill. The commercial port of Bordeaux was besieged by farmers from Rural Coordination 47 on Wednesday evening, a blockade which continues this Thursday morning. “This blockage is planned for the whole night at least”, before “other drop-off points” indicated Karine Duc, one of the leaders of the movement, to BFMTV. Dozens of tractors are still stationed on a roundabout this morning. The farmers still present on site, at the port of Bordeaux, indicate that they will not leave “until they have obtained a written commitment from the government”, at the microphone of BFMTV.
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.
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