On Monday afternoon, November 18, the Bridge of Europe in Strasbourg was closed to traffic by a parade of tractors. The blockade was lifted in the afternoon. A symbolic operation, organized jointly by farmers members of the local section of the agricultural union FNSEA and their German counterparts. Together they wanted to express their opposition to the free trade agreement negotiated between the European Union (EU) and the Mercosur countries (Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and Bolivia) at the opening of the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
This Alsatian mobilization is one of the operations organized in the territory by the FNSEA associated with the Young Farmers (JA). According to this union alliance, “85 demo points” They registered on Monday and others are expected on Tuesday. With a motto: “Don’t bore the French”in the words of the FNSEA. Thus, the partial blockade of the national 118, next to the Villacoublay military air base, in Yvelines, near Paris, imposed by the farmers of Ile-de-France on Sunday at the end of the day, with around twenty tractors, was suspended. , Monday early afternoon.
In Cannet-des-Maures (Var), some 300 farmers placed earth on the road and planted crosses that symbolize the death of French agriculture, threatened, according to them, by the free trade agreement with the Mercosur countries that the European Commission want to see it completed quickly.
Strike operations
In Montpellier, in Hérault, about 200 people hung posters with the names of the towns in the department on the doors of the prefecture. They then covered the Fountain of the Three Graces in the Place de la Comédie and placed manure around it. At the end of the afternoon, the “fires of anger” were lit more or less simultaneously in numerous localities, from Albi to La Rochelle, passing through Lyon, Bordeaux, Arras, Périgueux and Châlons-en-Champagne.
Other actions are planned for Tuesday, November 19. The Rural Coordination (CR), the second agricultural union, should, in turn, mobilize through its local branch CR 47 in Lot-et-Garonne, which distinguished itself at the beginning of the year for its coup. As for the Peasant Confederation (PC), it continues its program of meetings according to specific topics. On Monday he placed solar panels in front of the Corrèze Chamber of Agriculture to denounce soil erosion caused by energy projects.
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