The police are not, for the moment, going to evacuate the farmers who are blocking the A64 motorway between Toulouse and Bayonne. The Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin indicated that he had not requested an evacuation because there was “no damage on this site” (that of the A64).
Gérald Darmanin affirmed Monday that he had not requested “the evacuation by the police” of the farmers blocking the A64 motorway between Toulouse and Bayonne. Asked about the actions of farmers mainly in Occitania, on the sidelines of a press conference dedicated to the Olympic torch relay, the Minister of the Interior explained his decision by the fact that there was “no damage on this site” (that of the A64).
Fifth consecutive day of blockage
Monday, for the fifth consecutive day, the A64 between Toulouse and Bayonne is cut off to traffic at Carbonne, in Haute-Garonne, 45 km from Toulouse, by farmers who denounce in particular the low level of their income.
Motorists traveling on this axis must leave it before the blockade formed by around forty tractors, to return to the highway a little further on. In Tarn-et-Garonne, three roundabouts accessing the Golfech nuclear power plant, which supplies electricity to the Toulouse basin, have also been blocked by around fifty tractors since 5 a.m. Monday.