Farmers have been blocking several highways around Paris since 2 p.m. on Monday during a new day of action. Journalists from AFP established this. France has deployed 15,000 security forces.
At the Buchelay toll station in the Yvelines department, about 60 kilometers northwest of Paris, the A13 motorway in the direction of Paris was blocked. On the other side of the capital, near Jossigny, a blockade of the A4 also began, with the first tractors stationed on either side of the central reservation.
Two important agricultural organizations, FNSEA and Jeunes Agriculteurs, announced on Saturday that they want to organize “a siege of Paris” from Monday at 2 p.m. for an indefinite period. No region in France will be spared from roadblocks, FNSEA president Arnaud Rousseau warned, but there will be “shifts” to give protesters a break, pending further announcements from the prime minister.
According to the French channel BFMtv, the farmers want to block the A6, A5 and A4 highways to Paris, among other things. The gendarmerie warns that thirty departments and sixteen highways will be affected. By noon there were already about eight hundred tractors near Paris.
The organizations currently have no plans to go to Paris itself.
Parisian airports
French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin has asked law enforcement officials to set up “an important defense system” to prevent farmers from blocking the Rungis wholesale market or Paris airports and to deny them any access to Paris. prohibit.
About 15,000 members of the security forces have been deployed, but Darmanin asked them to exercise restraint.
The farmers’ protests have been going on for more than a week. The farmers block roads and dump manure in some places. They complain about declining revenues, administrative complexity and changing or overly strict rules.
Prime Minister Gabriel Attal previously announced that he would, among other things, cancel a tax increase on tractor fuel and that simplification measures would be introduced. But that is not enough for farmers.
