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The OFB, this environmental police which crystallizes the anger of farmers

2024-03-08T19:27:16.125Z

Highlights: The French Biodiversity Office (OFB) has been the target of farmers for two months. Around thirty departmental offices of this public establishment were the subject of tags, spreading of manure or dumping of tires by angry farmers. In Dijon, the first names of two agents were even written on the public building, accompanied by the words ‘transfer’ “We feel stigmatized. We are humiliated, we don’t know how we are going to go back to carry out checks on the farms,” says OFB Board of Directors member Éric Gourdin.


INVESTIGATION - The pressure of controls from the French Biodiversity Office is at the center of farmers' complaints. The inspectors feel stigmatized and denounce “OFB bashing”.


Unannounced checks on farms, armed agents, contradictory injunctions… The French Biodiversity Office (OFB), responsible for the proper application of environmental standards, has been the target of farmers mobilized for two months.

Around thirty departmental offices of this public establishment were the subject of tags, spreading of manure or dumping of tires by angry farmers.

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In Dijon, the first names of two agents were even written on the public building, accompanied by the words

“transfer”

.

Enough to arouse the indignation of OFB agents, in particular the 1700 inspectors responsible for environmental policing.

“We feel stigmatized.

The first names of inspectors were put out to pasture on public buildings, 30 of which were damaged by farmers,

denounces Éric Gourdin, secretary general of Unsa-Écologie, member of the OFB Board of Directors.

We are humiliated, we don’t know how we are going to go back to carry out checks on the farms…

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Source: lefigaro

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