Anger of farmers: the A9 “closed” from Aude to Vaucluse, Black Friday in Hérault, Paris threatened… new blockages planned

Un camion polonais vidé de sa cargaison de produits espagnols à Nîmes.

Punch actions are increasing in France while awaiting announcements from the government this Friday.

Striking actions are increasing in France, with farmers promising to hold the dams until they obtain strong responses from the government.

The president of the FNSEA, Arnaud Rousseau, even welcomed on Thursday evening a mobilization "historic", claiming more 55,000 demonstrators in France.

Consequence: Vinci Autoroutes reported numerous disruptions, signaling the extension of blockages "to new sectors".

Cuts were reported in particular on the A7, the A9, the A61, the A62, the A63. And the A20, where a car hit a dam of straw bales in Montauban during the night from Wednesday to Thursday. Two of the occupants of the vehicle were slightly injured.

Large stores targeted

The situation has also become tense in several cities. In Agen, after spraying the Lot-et-Garonne prefecture with slurry on Wednesday, demonstrators dumped it in front of the station, blocking the railway tracks.

Young Farmers (JA) also projected it on the facade and ceiling of a Leclerc supermarket in Castelculier (Lot-et-Garonne), which gave way. Several large stores were also targeted by demonstrators, as well as trucks coming from other countries.

Mobilization "unprecedented" in Gard

In Bordeaux, the farmers also targeted the prefecture, in front of which they dumped straw, slurry and burning tires. The anger of farmers was also heard in Occitania, particularly in Béziers, the scene of an undeclared demonstration.

In Aveyron, a farmers' snail operation was launched on the A75. The president of the FDSEA du Gard speaks of "an unprecedented mobilization" Thursday in the Nîmes sector where multiple actions were organized.

A risk of Black Friday on the roads of Hérault

This Friday, the A9 will be "entirely closed" in both directions of traffic from 6:30 a.m. from Aude to Vaucluse, via Hérault and Gard.

Three processions of demonstrators will converge that day towards Montpellier, announcing a black Friday on the roads of Hérault.

The map of blockages planned even before the announcement of the closure of the A9. M.L.

The president of the FDSEA of Oise, Régis Desrumaux, also warned that farmers would be "certainly at the gates of Paris&quot ; Friday or Saturday driving their tractors.

Direction Paris ?

The FDSEA Île-de-France and the Young Farmers of Île-de-France have even called for blocking access to the capital this Friday from 2 p.m.

The protest, largely supported by the French, is gaining momentum and the executive is trying to avoid a conflagration, even if it means asking the police not to intervene.

"We do not respond to suffering by sending CRS"

"If environmentalists did a thousandth of what is happening today, they would be in prison and condemned", observes EELV senator from Paris Yannick Jadot. Gérald Darmanin affirms that ’"there are no double standards".

"We do not respond to suffering by sending CRS", commented, the Minister of ;Interior, Thursday evening, on TF1.