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Farmers: fearing a conflagration, deputies try to calm the discontent

2024-01-25T18:57:38.652Z

Highlights: Farmers in France are angry over the price of food. Anger has escalated in recent days. Deputy: ‘We must be with our farmers, they defend the food cause. They don’t want it to get out of hand and want to be heard’ In Saône-et-Loire, where long lines of tractors block the roads, Renaissance deputy Rémy Rebeyrotte makes a series of phone calls. “There isn’s a week that I don't have agricultural representatives on the phone,” he says.


While waiting for answers, anger has escalated in recent days.


Cap screwed on his head, blue parka on his shoulders, Julien Dive multiplies the handshakes and pats on the back.

Around him, horns blare and engines roar.

Here, in Saint-Quentin (Aisne), a crossroads between two highways, one of which leads to Brussels and the other to Paris, the farmers are angry.

At their side, MP LR

“fully supports” them

in their approach.

“I invite all parliamentarians to do the same.

We must be with our farmers, they defend the food cause.

They don’t want it to get out of hand and want to be heard

,” insists Julien Dive, who got up at dawn to join them.

Like him, throughout France, deputies are trying to occupy the ground to avoid conflagration.

In Saône-et-Loire, where long lines of tractors block the roads, Renaissance deputy Rémy Rebeyrotte makes a series of phone calls.

“There isn’t a week that I don’t have agricultural representatives on the phone”

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Source: lefigaro

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