Caroline Baudry (near Carbonne) / Photo credits: FREDERIC SCHEIBER / HANS LUCAS / HANS LUCAS VIA AFP 12:04 p.m., January 25, 2024

Farmers' actions continue on Thursday on motorways, ring roads and roundabouts, disrupting traffic throughout the country, including at the gates of Paris with a snail operation carried out by tractors on the N12 in Yvelines.

On the A64, near Carbonne, the movement does not slow down.

The farmers are not giving up.

At least 80 departments are affected by blockages, snail operations and demonstrations this Thursday.

Occitanie, the cradle of this movement, has remained a stronghold of tractors for several days.

Europe 1 went to the A64.

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“My life is there, it is not in an office in Paris or in the city center in Toulouse”

At the Carbonne dam, the fire is still crackling to warm the farmers who have just spent their seventh night in the straw, sometimes below -7 degrees.

The determination of the farmers is bearing fruit, according to Jérôme Bayle, the breeder at the origin of this mobilization.

“We changed the way the whole thing worked a little because before it was unions, the Chamber of Agriculture and the farmers. Now, we reversed everything and maybe that’s what makes it work ", does he think.

"Yesterday, people called me and said to me: You are real because you say everything that no one dares to say and you take people with you. I have no ambition, other than that. either union, politics, chamber of agriculture. My life is at the foot of the mountains, among my cows, with my dogs. I go hunting, with my friends, I go to meals, I go to see my friends play in rugby. My life is there, it is not in an office in Paris or in the city center in Toulouse,” he says at the microphone of Europe 1.

“We sense the end,” he says spontaneously, rather optimistically, since the government knows it: “We won’t move.”

To help the farmers, food donations have poured in and will make it possible to last more than three weeks if necessary, says the organizer.