More than 500 people gathered this Friday, March 18 in Carcassonne, Aude, at the call of wine and agricultural unions in the department, to denounce the soaring prices, according to figures from the prefecture. CNEWS was able to collect the words of several participants.
For almost a month and the start of the war in Ukraine, farmers and farmers have been crumbling under the brutal rises in the price of raw materials.
This is why those of Aude gathered this Friday to denounce this inflation which jeopardizes their farms and called for accompanying measures.
Their first request: a return to a fuel price of around 1 euro, against 2 or even 2.50 euros currently.
A first action as a warning
Their action, they explained, constitutes a first warning before a possible hardening of the movement.
“The government will have to help us work with expensive fuel and it seems that this government does not have the ability to lower diesel prices as we saw a month ago and so we will start working to find solutions,” Frédéric Rouanet, president of the Aude winegrowers’ union, told CNEWS.
Alongside the agricultural world, craftsmen are also demanding global reductions in immediate charges, without waiting for the end of the presidential election.
“The announcement effects, we are starting to get used to them and the promises, we are starting to hear them. The building has been forgotten ”, lambasted at the microphone of CNEWS Olivier Coulon, president of the Confederation Crafts Small Businesses Building (Capeb) of Aude.
Other actions elsewhere in France
Elsewhere in the country this Friday, snail operations were also organized in Brittany to protest against rising fuel prices, while the oil depot in Lorient (Morbihan) was unblocked.
At the same time, the government has let go of the ballast, at the address of road hauliers. It will thus allocate an envelope of 400 million euros to the secteyr, which will be added to the measures of the resilience plan announced on Wednesday by Prime Minister Jean Castex to minimize the impact of soaring energy prices, have announced Friday the professional organizations.