Europe 1 with AFP 12:43 p.m., January 27, 2024
The unblocking of the A64 motorway at Carbonne in Haute-Garonne, the first farmers' barrier to have been installed 10 days ago, is underway, announced the spokesperson for the farmers on site.
The unblocking of the A64 motorway at Carbonne (Haute-Garonne), the first farmers' roadblock to have been installed 10 days ago, is underway, one of the protesters' spokespersons told AFP. place. “It’s almost cleaned, almost finished and cleared, it will be done around midday/midday and a half,” declared Joël Tournier, one of the spokespersons for the movement in Carbonne, with breeder Jérôme Bayle .
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“It seems to me that we were really, really heard”
“We are waiting for the state services to wash the road with also a private company that we brought in to clean the road,” continued Mr. Tournier, a grain farmer, adding that it was necessary to “sweep, degrease to let it be perfect.” "We have been heard, we have had some answers, everything will not be perfect straight away, we are not going to change French agriculture in five minutes under a motorway bridge but it seems to me that we have been really, really heard", estimated this farmer who has been mobilized with others for ten days at this dam located approximately 40 km southwest of Toulouse. “We have at least relaunched the debate on agriculture in France,” he added.
After announcing measures in favor of agriculture, Prime Minister Gabriel Attal came to the Carbonne dam on Friday evening, in the company of breeder Jérôme Bayle, who has become one of the media figures of the farmers' movement. The latter then committed to freeing traffic on the A64 on Saturday noon.