Rungis Objective for Rural Coordination
Despite the executive’s attempts to convince farmers to stop their mobilization, the demonstrators are moving closer to Paris and the Rungis wholesale market, the food hub of Ile-de-France and symbolic target of their protest movement.
A sign of their advance towards the capital, armored gendarmerie vehicles were deployed on Tuesday evening on the A6 a few kilometers from Rungis, near Chilly-Mazarin (Essonne), where tractors from the FDSEA of Seine are positioned -et-Marne, without incident, according to the police. Even if on certain dams, the situation has become somewhat tense in Ile-de-France.
Assuring to be “remotivated” by the fact of having been “fooled” by the government, the president of the Lot-et-Garonne Rural Coordination, Serge Bousquet-Cassagne, joined the convoy of 200 to 300 tractors which, leaving Agen under the banner of the Rural Coordination, plans to” invest ” Wednesday the Rungis market. In the villages they passed through, many residents came out to greet them and applaud their passage, sometimes waving French flags, noted a journalist from Agence France-Presse (AFP).
” Tomorrow [mercredi]there will be surprises, we are completely motivated: we will not come back down without going to Rungis in one way or another”Mr. Bousquet-Cassagne assured AFP.
The farmers also continue their progress towards Lyon, with the aim of blockading France’s second city. Tractors blocked the A89, which links Lyon to Clermont-Ferrand, at the end of the day.
Despite the declarations of the Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal, in his general policy speech before the National Assembly on Tuesday, accompanied by some new measures, the mobilization does not weaken: on Tuesday, the territorial intelligence services identified nearly 120 points of blockade, with 12,000 farmers mobilized, more than 6,000 tractors, at the national level.
Received Tuesday evening in Matignon for almost three hours, the FNSEA and the Young Farmers did not comment publicly on the latest words of the executive.