Almost 80 farmers arrested as protests blockade key food market, close in on Paris • FRANCE 24

Tractors blockades and now handcuffs police arrested several people trying to block the ranie Wholesale Food Market on Wednesday Farmers still fed up with conditions ignored warnings of police intervention if they crossed the red lines a few kilometers away tractors remained parked across the A6 Motorway a

Major access point to Paris as part of the broader plan to Target strategic locations around the city the farmers say they can’t make a decent living from their work environmental rules Rising costs and cheap Imports are to blame as is the headache of red tape I’ve had to hire someone to do my

Job out in the fields and to help me with my livestock because I spend half my time in the office many feel they are bearing the brunt of the government’s push to retailers to reduce food inflation it’s a system where they’re constantly negotiating with supermarkets

And we’re the crumbs at the end of the line they all make their profit and what’s left goes to the farmer French Finance Minister Bruno L denounced the blockades on Wednesday but said they would launch 500 checks on retailers to ensure they’re complying to the eim law a law designed to protect Farmers

Remuneration interior Minister Geral D was right in his reminder that France cannot be and should not be blocked this doesn’t stop me from saying how much I understand the anger and the suffering of the farmers the announcement comes the week after he said France would impose fines of up to

2% of food retailers revenues if they don’t give French Farmers fair prices

French police on Wednesday detained scores of people who broke into the Paris region’s main wholesale market complex during nationwide protests by farmers, the Créteil public prosecutor’s office told AFP.  The arrests came as convoys of tractors edged closer to Paris, Lyon and other key locations, with many ignoring police warnings over the scope of their action.

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24 comments

  3. another protest in France? /gasp what a shocker if they fight as good as they whine and protest, they would not have lost 3 wars

  10. You support farmer protest in inida hope you will also support french farmer also ….. whether they block highway or bring down your glag.

  11. We give them billions of subsidies per year with our taxes… so if they are not happy they can have another job someone else will be happy to replace them!

  12. This is why my best friends and family are farmers.
    All of everyone should plaint food. My grandmother told of what it was like to have nothing to eat. Days with nothing….
    She had a garden packed with everything.
    Eight chickens, Nine ducks,I do like duck. One cow that was her prize. Milk cheese..I could go and on.
    One little garden…wow

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  23. To all the farmers who got arrested in the protest: Don’t worry we can survive without food(we definitely won’t) release those farmers now!

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