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“We will not give up, even if we have to go to Brussels”: meeting with the farmers at the end of their nerves

2024-02-02T06:20:54.694Z

Highlights: Farmers from Ille-et-Vilaine occupy a viaduct of the D137 linking Rennes to Saint-Malo. On either side of the central reservation crossed by a safety rail, eight tractors and a few trailers prohibit all traffic. This was diverted 5 kilometers upstream by the public authorities using orange cones. Below the bridge, the nearest access ramps, located in the town of Tinténiac, are blocked by tractors marked with the slogan ‘We walk on our heads’


REPORT - Expressing accumulated anger in the face of the multiplication of regulations and a lack of consideration from large retailers, operators blocked French roads. We met them.


This article comes from Figaro Magazine

From our special correspondents in Ille-et-Vilaine, Jean-Marc Gonin (text) and Olivier Coret (photos)

On the side of the D137, a column of smoke rises into the winter sky.

A fire of wooden pallets warms farmers from Ille-et-Vilaine who occupy a viaduct of this four-lane road linking Rennes to Saint-Malo.

On either side of the central reservation crossed by a safety rail, eight tractors and a few trailers prohibit all traffic.

This was diverted 5 kilometers upstream by the public authorities using orange cones.

Below the bridge, the nearest access ramps, located in the town of Tinténiac, are blocked by tractors marked with the slogan “We walk on our heads”, the national slogan of this protest movement. agricultural.

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On this cold and damp morning, there are a few dozen of them having coffee under a black canopy sheltering provisions intended to hold the dam.

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Source: lefigaro

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