As of: January 29, 2024, 12:13 p.m
By: Sophia Lother
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The anger of the French farmers is great.
Several Romanian truck drivers have now experienced this firsthand and report on the frightening incidents.
Dome – The demonstrations by farmers in many European countries are rapidly escalating.
In addition to the announced blockade of Paris, there were also numerous protests and incidents in France in advance.
Trucks are said to have been looted and goods destroyed.
Ten tons of meat were apparently destroyed in one incident alone.
An EU country is now drawing serious consequences from this.
It is a picture of destruction.
Last week, according to media reports, French farmers attacked trucks in the Department Dome and destroyed the goods, among other things.
In the middle of this chaos were the married couple Maria and Nicolae Badea.
They reported the frightening incidents
to
CNN Antena 3 .
Farmer protests in France escalate: truck drivers in fear after attacks
“We were shocked.
[...] We knew about the strike, but we didn't know that it would reach this extent,” reports Maria Badea.
Her husband emphasizes: “We didn't understand what they actually wanted, what would happen to us, what would happen to the truck... to the goods, because you can imagine that it was very, very dangerous there and in At the moment it is very dangerous throughout France.”
She waited anxiously with her husband until another Romanian truck driver came to them and wanted to calm her down.
“Then a Romanian came and told us that nothing would happen to us if we didn’t defend ourselves.”
The couple accused the police of inaction.
Farmers' protests in France: Here, farmers light fires while blocking a highway near Ableiges, north of Paris.
© Thomas Padilla/dpa
A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry, Radu Filip, said in an interview with
CNN Antena 3
that they are in close contact with the French authorities and the incidents are being investigated.
With the announced blockades, including in Paris, the situation is now getting even worse.
Romania is taking action and issuing travel warnings.
EU country Romania publishes travel warnings for France
In the travel warnings, the government addresses the road blockades and names possible regions in which closures could take place.
For Romanian citizens, the ministry also publishes different emergency numbers depending on the region.
There they receive consular assistance in the event of “difficult emergency situations”.
Meanwhile, it is unclear how long the protests in France will last.
Farmers' dissatisfaction has been blazing for months.
Falling income, EU environmental regulations and other requirements and the increase in agricultural diesel fueled the anger of many farmers.
French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal made far-reaching promises of aid to farmers on Friday in the face of days of protests.
These included, among other things, the withdrawal of taxation on agricultural diesel and emergency aid of 100 million euros for farmers and the organic sector hit by storms.
However, for many people this assistance did not go far enough.