Thursday evening, Renaissance MP Jean-René Cazeneuve was coated in flour while he was discussing a blockage point in L'Isle-Jourdan with farmers, our colleagues from La Dépêche report.
With the discontent of farmers growing in recent days, the mobilized workers are impatient to see the government give answers.
Intelligence alerted Thursday of the risk of excesses and the government indicated that “announcements” would be made this Friday via a speech by Gabriel Attal on the ground.
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Floured in the middle of an interview
While he was to speak with farmers who had been mobilized for several days in his constituency, Jean-René Cazeneuve had “imported flour” spilled on his head, according to a journalist present on site.
🚜#AgriculteursEnColere Present this evening at the Isle-Jourdain dam in the #Gers to speak with the farmers mobilized for several days, the Gers deputy Jean-René Cazeneuve was floured by an angry farmer with “imported flour” pic.twitter.com/LfzU2cHXI5
— enzo.rousseau (@rousseauenzo) January 25, 2024
The general rapporteur of the budget to the Assembly attended the press conference of the FDSEA and Young Farmers, before speaking.
Booed by a crowd of farmers, he was thrown with flour while speaking to local journalists.
On social networks, Internet users are having fun with the situation while several photos taken by journalists present on site are circulating.
If some praise a gesture which constitutes a “barrier to political reappropriation”, others criticize a lack of civic-mindedness.
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“We do not respond to suffering by sending CRS”, responds Gérald Darmanin on the blockages of farmers
On January 23 on his Twitter account, after the dramatic accident which killed a mother and her daughter, the elected official expressed his full “support for the farmers who hold these roadblocks peacefully to carry out their demands”.
After bringing together the ministers of Agriculture, Ecological Transition and the Economy, Gabriel Attal is expected this Friday for announcements relating to the discontent of farmers.
The unions have been calling for several days on the executive to speak out on the issue, with its agriculture bill at the top of the list.