French tractor protests: Armoured vehicles guard world’s largest fresh food market in Paris

French tractor protests: Armoured vehicles guard world’s largest fresh food market in Paris

French police have stationed armoured vehicles outside Rungis, which feeds at least 12 million people per day, and have been granted authorisation to fly drones over the vast market outside the capital.

A group of 90-odd tractors continued in their attempt to reach Rungis, which is known as “the belly of Paris”, after calls by some radical farmers to “starve” the capital to win government concessions.

Riot police briefly blocked the tractor convoy’s progress but it then left the motorway and proceeded on smaller roads, warning police not to “trap” it again or face violence.

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