Tragic incident in the farmers’ protests currently taking place in France: a driver drove straw through a blockade on Tuesday, behind which demonstrators were standing. A farmer’s wife was killed and her husband and daughter seriously injured.
The drama took place on a national road from Toulouse to Spain, said the president of the farmers’ association FNSEA, Arnaud Rousseau. As “Le Parisiene” reports, a driver pushed his car through the closed street around 5:45 a.m. and hit several people. “A woman has died, her husband and daughter are apparently in critical condition,” Rousseau said.
According to a police source, the seriously injured daughter is said to be a teenager and the father is ‘in his forties’. The deceased is said to be a woman in her thirties.
Vehicle traveling at “breakneck speed”.
“The car drove at breakneck speed on the embankment, avoiding the concrete blocks,” Sébastien Durand, vice-president of the FNSEA, explained the accident. Whether the driver deliberately drove through the demonstrator barrier or whether some other circumstance was responsible for the tragedy is currently under investigation.
Passengers of crashed cars were also injured
All three occupants of the crash car were arrested. They were also injured and are currently being examined by doctors, it was said this morning. An investigation was not yet possible and the first blood tests found no indications of alcohol or drug abuse.
French Agriculture Minister Marc Fesneau expressed his “very emotional” condolences to the family: “I think of them, I think of their partner and their daughter, who are still fighting for their lives. It is a tragedy for all of us,” he wrote on platform X (formerly Twitter).
Numerous highways are blocked
Farmers in France expanded their protests after agricultural groups met Prime Minister Gabriel Attal on Monday. The important north-south A7 highway near Albon was blocked in both directions at night by about twenty farmers with their tractors. Several highways were also blocked in the Toulouse region. In addition, rail traffic was disrupted: fires broke out next to the tracks between Bordeaux and Toulouse. During the protests, farmers lit fires in barrels.
The demonstrations concern excessive regulations, the income situation, energy costs and, as in Germany, the price of agricultural diesel. Climate change is also becoming an increasing problem due to water shortages in the southern regions.
Source: Krone
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