“It went really well, the police and the CRS were adorable,” says Hubert, farmer of around thirty hectares of cereals and vines in Charente-Maritime, this Thursday noon as he left his custody. seen at the Créteil police station, which had started the day before “around 5 or 6 p.m.”.
Like him, 78 other demonstrators spent the night in an Ile-de-France police station, for having entered or attempted to enter the grounds of the national interest market (MIN) in Rungis on Wednesday at the end of the day.
Rungis, “a symbolic target”
Around 4:50 p.m., several dozen farmers, including some members of the Lot-et-Garonne Rural Coordination, arrived after a long journey in front of warehouses on the edge of the Rungis market, which they had erected as a symbol to reach.
Some demonstrators entered a “storage zone” on foot and committed “damage,” according to Paris police chief Laurent Nuñez.
They were then all calmly escorted by the police.
“It wasn’t violent because we have nothing to reproach ourselves for,” declared Hubert this Thursday lunchtime.
“We wanted to show Attal and Darmanin that we were there, I am used to entering the MIN in Agen where I sell a lot of my fruit,” defends Martin, who owns a few hectares of organic apple trees, plums ente and hazelnut trees in Lot-et-Garonne.
Although he recognizes that the night in police custody was not “very comfortable”, he does not regret his approach: “Rungis is a symbolic target, I came to support my colleagues from Lot-et-Garonne and put my stone in the building.
We are fighting against 40 years of free trade policies, it is a real fundamental problem,” denounces the man who has suffered two consecutive years of frost as well as a drop in the price of his organic apples by 40 cents per kilo.
“We can't get by anymore, it's only public aid that's getting us out of the water.
» Unlike others, Martin did not come by tractor but left by car from the Agen region on Tuesday evening.
“The operation must continue to operate,” he explains.
Créteil, this Thursday noon.
Hubert came from Charente-Maritime to support his fellow farmers.
He was arrested on the evening of Wednesday January 31 near the Rungis MIN.
The Créteil public prosecutor's office lifted the 79 police custody this Thursday morning, without prosecution at this stage, but investigations "will continue" as part of the preliminary investigation opened in particular for damage to the property of others during a meeting, " in particular for the use of videos aimed at identifying the main authors of the damage,” specifies the Créteil public prosecutor’s office.
The investigation was entrusted to the L’Haÿ-les-Roses police station (Val-de-Marne).