Blocking large and small towns was, from the middle of the week, the farmers' idea to influence the government.
Despite the string of aid and simplification measures announced by Gabriel Attal on Friday to put an end to the blockages, and the lifting of some of the blockades, the rural world does not want to give in so quickly.
Some are already organizing the blocking of Paris and the inner suburbs of the Ile-de-France region from Monday.
“In Île-de-France the mobilizations are lifted, but to come back better,” explained this Saturday morning Maxime Buizard, national administrator of the Young Farmers of Loiret union.
“During the night from Sunday to Monday, we changed our method because the answers were not up to par.
The measures announced are going in the right direction, but the accounts are not there,” criticized the cereal producer on BFM and on Sud Radio.
“No truck that can serve the capital”
The farmer even announces “the blockade of Paris and the inner suburbs of Paris”: “We are going to take advantage of the weekend to recharge our batteries and prepare for the mobilization”.
“The idea is that there are no trucks that can serve the capital, to ensure that no product enters Paris, to make Parisians understand that they need farmers to live,” continues Maxime. Buizard.
“We are going to be committed to the long term, the idea is to surround the capital long enough to be heard by Gabriel Attal,” he explained on Sud Radio.
🔴 #AgriculteursEnAngere: after the declarations of G. Attal, blockages still planned? @MaximeBuizard: "From Sunday evening, we will amplify our mode of action. I tell our friends in the Ile-de-France region, the week is going to be long: Paris will be blocked" https://t.co/HKluh7FCAc pic.twitter.com/foePn3aq07
— Sud Radio (@SudRadio) January 27, 2024
“The goal is not to annoy Parisians, but from Monday morning all motorways and a certain number of departmental roads leading to Paris will not be passable.”
For how long ?
“For a few days if not a few weeks, the objective we have set is to last until the Agricultural Show”, which is scheduled for Porte de Versailles at the end of February .
The Young Farmers' Union, "young" because all those responsible must be under 38 years old, claims 50,000 members and is close to the FNSEA.
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For their part, around twenty members of the Seine-et-Marne Rural Coordination launched a snail operation on Saturday morning to go from Beton-Bazoches, in the south of the department, to Roissy airport.
“We decided to continue because nothing is concrete in the Prime Minister's announcements.
What we want is an in-depth reform,” explains Émilie Vandierendonck, president of Rural Coordination 77, to Le Parisien. “The goal is to show members of the government that it is the farmers who feed them.”