Promise kept.
The eight blocking points in the Paris region announced this weekend by the FNSEA and JA unions were taken over by farmers on Monday, from 2 p.m. and throughout the afternoon.
Strategically chosen to encircle Paris, these areas besieged by tractors led to the closure of numerous sections of highways.
As night fell, the demonstrators were fine-tuning their installations, prepared to take over the scene for “several days”.
In detail, the A1, A4, A5a, A6, A10, A13, A15 and A16 motorways are affected by these blockages.
Some of these axes are blocked in only one direction of traffic, others in both.
This is particularly the case of the A13 motorway, closed in both directions at the Buchelay toll near Mantes-la-Jolie (Yvelines), and of the A10, closed near Dourdan (Essonne) and Longvilliers (Yvelines) after the very busy Saint-Arnoult toll.
A hundred tractors in Rungis
The Lot-et-Garonne Rural Coordination (CR47), which called on Saturday to block the Rungis market (Val-de-Marne), launched its procession of tractors Monday morning from Agen.
After a first stop in the Limoges area, the hundred tractors plan to arrive near the market “Tuesday evening or Wednesday morning”.
A large police force, notably composed of armored gendarmerie vehicles, awaits them.
Other blockages were put in place elsewhere in France on Monday and will be maintained for some time.
This is particularly the case at the gates of Lyon, where farmers have cut off traffic on the A7/M7 motorway.