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Some 350 tractors entered Paris this morningauthorized by the Government and, after making a tour from the northeast that took them through the Champs-Élysées and the Place de la Concorde, a part of them have stationed themselves next to the National Assembly to protest against the EU-Mercosur agreement.
According to the newspaper Le Figarothe tractors are now forming a long line from the Quai d’Orsay to the Arc de Triomphe.
That same newspaper points out that the protesters have parked their tractors and have gone to cafes in the city center.
A young farmer joked with the aforementioned that they were going to have something to drink before dinner: “After all, we’ve been awake since one in the morning.”he said to the aforementioned Le Figaro.
Although the tractors are stopped in front of emblematic buildings in Paris, the atmosphere is relaxed and there have been no incidents so far.
The Paris Police Prefecture strives to emphasize that this mobilization, led by the National Federation of Agricultural Operators’ Unions (FNSEA, the first union in the sector), has been carried out with a prior declaration of demonstration.
A way to underline the difference with the action carried out last week by the Rural Coordination, a union with a much more radical operation, which bypassed the ban on tractors entering the capital and pressured the blockades of law enforcement to stand in emblematic places such as the Eiffel Tower.
Tractors of French farmers parked in front of the National Assembly, in Paris.
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Beyond this issue, the FNSEA initiative is a way of complain to the French authorities “concrete and immediate actions” in defense of food sovereignty which the union considers “in danger”, in particular with the vote of the European Union (EU) last Friday in favor of the agreement with Mercosur, despite the opposition of France and some other countries.
Faced with the atmosphere of tranquility that was breathed in the streets of Paris, This morning there were tense scenes during the blockade of the A64 motorway in Carbonne, near Toulousewhere a strong law enforcement force had been deployed, with about 200 agents, according to BFMTV, to dismantle it.
The protest at that point on the highway has continued uninterruptedly since December 12, organized by a group, “the ultras of the A64”, outside the agricultural unions, against the EU-Mercosur agreement.
But also against the Government protocol for lumpy skin disease, which requires the sacrifice of all animals on a farm when a case is declared.
The issue of the EU-Mercosur agreement is the justification that serves as the basis for two motions of censure that the prime minister has to face this week, Sébastien Lecornupresented by La France Insumisa (LFI) by Jean-Luc Mélenchon and the Agrupación Nacional (RN) by Marine Le Pen.