What will Gabriel Attal announce on Friday? Faced with the agricultural revolt which has lasted for several days, the Prime Minister will unveil first measures to try to appease anger, during a trip to farmers, according to information from Europe 1. FNSEA called for “immediate” aid and a reduction in environmental constraints, as the mobilization continues on motorways, ring roads and roundabouts and extends across the country this Thursday morning. For Robert Ménard, various right-wing mayor of Béziers, guest of La Grande interview Europe 1-CNews on Thursday, “a whole part of France is ignored”.
“It’s easier to live in a suburb of 93 than to live in the depths of Lozère”
“We spend our lives, including in the media, only talking about the suburbs. It’s easier to live in a suburb of 93 than to live in the depths of Lozère or Aveyron. You have more attention, all the media run as soon as there is a problem. Are you going to Aubrac to find out the consequences of climate change? Never, never, never. They [les agriculteurs] can’t take this anymore. There is a whole part of this France that is ignored,” he said at Sonia Mabrouk’s microphone.
This Thursday, blockades and snail operations are taking place across the country. Haut-Rhin, Oise, Gard, Yvelines, Loire, Occitanie are concerned… According to the mayor of Béziers, France is made up of two countries. “You have two countries here. I don’t understand why we don’t understand it. And it goes from the National Rally to France Insoumise through all the others. All the serious candidates for the presidential election are all Parisians or live in Paris,” he observed.
“No one is going to solve the farmers’ problem right away”
The FNSEA, the leading agricultural union, demanded on Wednesday evening from the government “immediate responses on remuneration”, including emergency aid to “the sectors most in crisis”, and, in the longer term, the implementation of a “project to reduce standards”. The farmers “want you to touch him, to tell him that you understood what he is, what he represents. The words, the choice of attitudes, it’s not a supplement of soul, it’s “is the heart of what we can do”, indicated the mayor of Béziers before adding that no one will be able to immediately resolve all the problems facing farmers. “No one is going to solve the farmers’ problems right away. The first person who tells you that is bullshit. But at least you have empathy with them,” he slipped.