“But let us pass, we’re not going to break anything!”
At the wheel of his John Deere, on which he proudly hung the “Agen” sign, Rémy Pachaben fumes.
It has been stopped on the A20 for several tens of minutes.
However, the cereal grower usually knows how to be patient.
The day before, he spent no less than twelve hours on his tractor to travel from Agen to Panazol, a neighboring town to Limoges.
“It was at our own pace so it wasn’t awkward. There, we are being deliberately blocked.”
It is not even 6:30 a.m. and the convoy of farmers led by rural coordination is stopped after having only traveled around forty kilometers.
The line of more than 200 vehicles is at a standstill.
The fault lies with a major gendarmerie roadblock.
The blue flashing lights of the police force contrast with the yellow flashes of the tractors in the Haute-Vienne night.
The start of a long day.
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