While the mobilization is barely calming down in the Agen metropolitan area, the damage is estimated at several hundred thousand euros, as in several areas where actions have been carried out over the last ten days.
“I confirm that the damage is estimated at 400,000 euros.
We need to refine these figures,” declared Jean Dionis of Séjour (MoDem) to an AFP correspondent, confirming information from the newspaper Sud Ouest.
The city requests participation from the State
“The urban area will take part of it, the city too.
The city will ask the State for a participation that would be legitimate.
It was his buildings that were targeted,” said the MP.
The main target of the demonstrators, the prefecture was notably covered in slurry on several occasions.
The actions are attributed to the Rural Coordination union, which also targeted the Departmental Directorate of Territories and the Mutualité sociale agricole.
Straw and pallet fires also damaged the roadways in front of the buildings.
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In the city, union members blocked the A62 motorway and dumped tires, straw or slurry on hypermarkets, a purchasing center and even railway tracks.
Road manager, the departmental council is in the process of assessing this damage.
The journey to Rungis streaked by tractors
Haute-Vienne, crossed Monday and Tuesday by the Rural Coordination convoy towards Rungis, cannot “precisely quantify the extent of the damage”.
It is certain that “it is indeed several hundred thousand euros”, according to the vice-president of the departmental council in charge of mobility, Stéphane Destruhaut.
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He deplores that the traffic has “transferred to our network of departmental roads which is not capable of supporting the traffic which usually circulates on the motorway”.
He describes in particular the ruts which surround the roads or even overturned heavy goods vehicles.
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Several hundred tractors paraded in the pink city on January 16.
Farmers had dumped manure, branches and tires in front of administrative buildings.
“In Moselle, on Saturday, we cleaned 76 semi-trailers of waste on the highway,” regrets the general director of Sanef, Arnaud Quémard, on BFMTV Tuesday morning.
According to him, these are “150,000 euros of relief that we must finance, in order to return the highway to traffic”.