The protest, which started at 2 p.m., has already blocked at least eight highways and roads. Prime Minister Gabriel Attal will receive representatives from one of the convening unions this afternoon.
This afternoon the farmers carried out their threat to switch to one “siege” of Paris with blockages in some of the main access roads to the capital, while the president, Emmanuel Macron, assembled a crisis cabinet.
In line with what two of the largest organizations in the sector announced, the all-powerful National Federation of Farmers (FNSEA) and its partners in the Young Farmers (JJAA), convoys of hundreds of tractors have started blockades from 2 p.m
The traffic information website in the Ile de France region, where Paris is located, indicated at least an hour and a half later eight highway closures and roads in the region.
A convoy of dozens of tractors, called by the National Coordination, left the city of Agen (between Bordeaux and Toulouse) early in the morning in the direction of Paris, where others joined along the way, with the intention of arriving the next day. night at the Rungis food market, on the outskirts of the capital, to close off access.
Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin warned yesterday that while some law enforcement agencies will not prevent roadblocks around Paris, as long as “property and people” are respected, Yes, they will intervene like the tractors Try Enter Paris, block Paris or the capital’s airports, Orly and Charles de Gaulle.
A Gendarmerie anti-riot unit with several tanks had already taken positions this morning around the Rungis food market, the most important in France.
In Ipar Euskal Herriathe farmers lifted the blockade they had placed on the bridge over the Adur Bayonne, after almost a week of protests. This morning they held two protests in a supermarket in Angelu.
Macron meets his government and Attal receives the unions
The French government, aware of the pressure, has announced that a meeting will be held at 3:15 p.m. chaired by Macron to analyze the situation, with its Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal, and the heads of Agriculture, Marc Fesneau, Economy, Bruno Le Maire, Ecology, Christophe Béchu, and Interior, Gérald Darmanin.
Attal, on the other hand, will receive the president of the FNSEA, Arnaud Rousseau, at 6 p.m.
Source: EITB
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