They were determined to secure a meeting with the President of the Republic.
About 200 farmers demonstrated Thursday in front of the premises of the general management of Pôle Emploi in Paris, to demand a common agricultural policy more oriented towards employment.
Among them, about thirty took over the entrance hall - choosing to stay there and not to invade the floors - to demand an interview with the general management of Pôle Emploi and with Emmanuel Macron.
“We came up with proposals that are likely to reverse the agricultural model and give it more workers,” explains Nicolas Girod, spokesperson for the Confédération paysanne.
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All, in fact, plead for a redistribution of aid and criticize the CAP for not being sufficiently oriented towards small farms, which "relies solely on the surface", in the words of Laurence, a farmer in Ariège. "We, the agriculture that we are proposing, it provides jobs", indicated Mrs. Marchesseau, secretary general of the Confédération paysanne, who wants, among other things, a "cap on aid" to large farmers, "for a redistribution towards as many people as possible ”. But also a significant revaluation of the payment on the first hectares intended to support small and medium-sized farms.
If the demonstrators, who demanded peaceful action, ensured they remained in the hall until they had an answer, the police finally dislodged them by force in the middle of the afternoon.