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Added on the 31/01/2024 13:17:35 - Copyright : AFPTV - First 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
Tractors continued to block the A6 motorway at Chilly-Mazarin, some ten kilometres (6 miles) from Rungis wholesale food market, Paris' key food supply hub. Farmers union Coordination Rurale who had called for the blockade, now sent out the directive to go "towards the National Assembly" in Paris instead. IMAGES
With their tractors and haystack-filled tipper lorries stationed on A6 motorway, French farmers are facing a police roadblock as they near Rungis, the world's second largest wholesale food market, just south of Paris. IMAGES
Police and gendarmerie vehicles, including armored vehicles, set up at one of the main entrances to the Rungis market, just as the main farmers' unions had announced their intention to lead a "siege of the capital for an indefinite period". On Sunday, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin asked police officers to set up "a major defensive operation" to prevent farmers "from entering Paris". 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
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