Aude, Andorra, Spanish border… A dark day predicted in the south of France
While Gabriel Attal was due to go to Occitanie tomorrow to announce the measures taken by the government, the roads in the south of France will be blocked in many places, as the mobilization intensifies. With this in mind Friday, on the A61 and A9 motorways, the Aude prefecture “asks motorists to avoid the main and secondary roads of Aude during the demonstration. Several convoys of tractors are expected from 7 a.m. on the A61 motorway near Carcassonne, Lézignan, and on the A9 motorway in the Sigean sector, before a meeting point at the Narbonne toll booth around 9 a.m.
Access to Pas-de-la-Case in Andorra will also be closed on Friday at 10 a.m. for an indefinite period, due to a demonstration by farmers in the Pyrénées-Orientales, reports the Ariège prefecture. In Aveyron, Tarn, Gers or Tarn-et-Garonne, “we will not move from the roadblocks put in place”affirm the FNSEA and the Young Farmers (JA).
In Lot-et-Garonne, the Rural Coordination is preparing to “go to Paris”, after an intense day of various actions on Thursday. Reached by telephone, Serge Bousquet-Cassagne, the president of the Chamber of Agriculture affirms that “From Monday, around 150 tractors will head towards Paris. We have already prepared two tankers of diesel and provisions for the round trip,” he assures World.