150 tractors and dozens of cars are stopped on a highway blocked in both directions of traffic. They have provided sleeping bags, bales of straw or simply a blanket to sleep on the seat of their tractor.
Several tons of potatoes were brought to feed the demonstrators, along with meat and bread. “We are committed to at least three days of blocking,” says Xavier D., a 39-year-old farmer. The FNSEA and Young Farmers unions announced “a siege of the capital” starting this Monday.