Special envoy to Dijon (Côte-d’Or)
On a giant screen covering an entire wall, videos play live.
On one of them, we can see a large plume of black smoke, tractors clustered near a highway guardrail and hundreds of tires on fire.
“It’s still heating up on the A31 at Til-Châtel, north of Dijon.
We don't know if the farmers are going to leave,
because there are members of the FNSEA who want to lift the barrier, but the Confédération paysanne, which is also there, wants to stay,
”
comments Gaëlle, an employee of APRR, a company which operates 2,400 kilometers of motorways in eastern France.
From her security PC in Dijon, one of three in the group, she and her teams monitor the 1,400 kilometers of network located between Mâcon and Paris.
Over the past two weeks, the agricultural revolt movement has kept them busy.
“We had to deal with around ten blockages on the network, close dozens of sections of motorway, organize…
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