Cover image: Farmers demonstrate in Le Mans, January 26, 2024. GUILLAUME SOUVANT / AFP
- After days of protests and blockades, Prime Minister Gabriel Attal announced Thursday, during a trip to Haute-Garonne, a series of measures intended to respond to the anger of farmers.
- In particular, he acceded to some of the most pressing requests: abandonment of the tax increase on non-road diesel (GNR), simplification measures, revalued compensation for cattle breeders affected by epizootic hemorrhagic disease…
- “We have made the decision to continue this mobilization”reacted Friday evening the president of the FNSEA, Arnaud Rousseau. “The Prime Minister’s announcements do not answer all of the questions we ask ourselves”he continued.
- The Occitan breeder Jérôme Bayleinitiator of the first dam and became a figure of the protest, announced for his part that the Carbonne dam (Haute-Garonne) on the A64 would be lifted by Saturday noon.
- Laurence Marandola, spokesperson for the Peasant Confederation, considers that the Prime Minister’s announcements are “very widely” insufficient.
- The EELV MP Sandrine Rousseau estimated that “it’s not the announcements that have just been made [par Gabriel Attal] which will reduce the suicide rate among farmers.” For the president of the LFI group in the National Assembly, Mathilde Panot, “those who feed the country must be able to live from their work”. The National Rally denounces “insufficient measures” Who “do not meet the challenges or expectations”.
- A fire caused on Friday evening by angry farmers at the Customs office in Nîmes caused “serious damage”declared the Gard prefecture. “Eight light vehicles were set on fire inside the Customs office by individuals driving agricultural machinery”which also caused “major damage to the building and destroyed the gate”reported the prefecture, specifying that“an investigation is underway to identify the perpetrators”.
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