“
Our fields are not garbage cans
”: farmers demonstrated on Friday morning on several roundabouts in Ile-de-France to protest against the dumping of litter in their fields.
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"
Not a day goes by without my discovering a new pile of waste, it can be counted in hundreds, in thousands of tonnes
", testifies Guillaume Moret, farmer in Plessis-Gassot, on a roundabout near the airport from Roissy.
They are "
organized networks
", he believes.
“
We have people who are well known in the region, we have already seen them and nobody does anything.
When they are caught, they only have a reminder of the law,
”laments the farmer.
These protests to express a "
fed up
" took place in the early morning in Val-d'Oise, Yvelines and Essonne.
Paul Dubray, farmer who led the action in Gennicourt (Val-d'Oise), denounces to AFP these "
business trucks that will put rubble, tires, microwaves
" on agricultural plots, sometimes made inaccessible because of these wild deposits.
"
For 80% of them, they charge customers and instead of putting them in a recycling center dump them in the fields,
" he said again, calling for "
a little stiffer fines
" for offenders.
“
The farmers of Ile-de-France, exasperated, have decided to react to denounce this damage which they suffer massively on a daily basis.
These incivilities harm the work of farmers and distort our landscapes
”, explain the FDSEA and JA, at the origin of the mobilization.
In the Val-d'Oise, about fifty farmers were mobilized on Friday morning with their tractors, according to the gendarmerie.
They deposited rubble, without blocking traffic, and deployed banners to educate motorists about the problem.
Same thing in the Yvelines where they were forty in total, according to the same source.
They were also "
several dozen
" to have mobilized in Essonne, according to David Vallée, FDSEA representative for the canton of Saint-Arnoult / Dourdan.
