The situation is returning to normal almost everywhere in France.
This Saturday morning, the farmers who had blocked the Saint-Quentin-Fallavier (Isère) tollbooth on the A43 since Tuesday were in the process of evacuating the premises, AFP learned from the prefecture and the Farmers' Confederation.
“There was a dialogue between demonstrators and law enforcement.
Everything takes place in consultation,” indicated the Isère prefecture.
Cleaning operations will be able to begin, according to the same source.
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The demonstrators present on site will “try to go out with dignity and singing,” said Isabelle Douillon, a farmer from Rhône.
“Around fifty gendarmes are on site, everything is happening calmly and serenely.
We’re going to leave the place clear.”
Friday at 7:30 p.m., two highways managed by Vinci, France's main concessionaire, remained cut off on a portion - the A7 and the A10 - and some interchanges were still closed.
Although the blockages were lifted on Friday on the A71, a portion of the highway is still closed, according to Vinci.
On the A10, “demonstrations” were still in progress this Saturday morning, making traffic still impossible between Saint-Maixent-Lusignan and Poitiers.
08:30 a.m.: ⛔Demonstrations are still underway on the #A10.
Traffic is still impossible on #A10 between St Maixent Lusignan and Poitiers.
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— A10 Motorway (@A10Trafic) February 3, 2024
No more blockages for the Peasant Confederation
Around 80 farmers who had been blocking the Leclerc purchasing center for the Greater West of France since Monday evening, in Saint-Étienne-de-Montluc (Loire-Atlantique), were also being evacuated this Saturday morning.
“The police came with big resources.
We are being dislodged even though we were completely peaceful,” laments Jean-François Guitton, secretary general of the Confédération paysanne en Loire-Atlantique, specifying “that there is not a trace of our passage left, we leave the place nickel”.
According to him, the police "require an identity check of all those present, this has not been done in any other blockade", he also assures, being surprised to receive such "treatment different ".
The Peasant Confederation had called for continued mobilization this weekend and planned to deploy 1,000 hives at the blocked point of the A43 on Monday to denounce the government's agricultural policy.
“We resisted as best we could, we are the only ones to have called to continue the fight,” commented Isabelle Douillon.
The A43 and Sca West roadblocks were the last two held by the Confédération paysanne, according to a spokesperson for the agricultural union.