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Added on the 01/02/2024 11:10:53 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Police watch as farmers makes their goodbyes before leaving the portion of A1 motorway at Chennevieres-les-Louvres, near Paris international airport Roissy Charles de Gaulle, they had blocked off with tractors. IMAGES
French farmers are beginning to dismantle their campsite on the A6 motorway at Chilly-Mazarin, in Paris southern suburbs. Farmers' largest unions FNSEA and Young Farmers have called for the blockades to be lifted following the new measures announced by the government. IMAGES
French police has stopped a farmers' convoy of hundreds tractors heading towards the Rungis wholesale food market south of Paris. Some 200 to 300 tractors are now sitting in the town of Sully-sur-Loire, 170 km south of Rungis. Setting off from the south-west of France at the call of union Coordination rurale, the group of angry farmers grew as they drove up the nation, with more and more joining along the way. IMAGES
French farmers are at the gates of the Rungis wholesale market, under the close surveillance of police who has set up a roadblock by the entrance. The President of the largest farmers union FNSEA is calling for "calm and reason" while the government is trying to appease the anger of the farming community. IMAGES
Despite fresh new measures announced this morning by French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, some farmers continue to block motorway A62 in both directions near Toulouse in southern France. IMAGES
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