Hundreds of farmers took action on Monday evening "fires of anger", burning pallets, straw bales and stumps, to express the "malaise" of the agricultural world, at the call of the FNSEA and Youth farmers.
Denounce "the relentlessness" suffered by farmers
In Île-de-France, fires were lit in half a dozen places, including two in the Val d'Oise, three in the Yvelines, and one in the Essonne, according to Amandine Muret-Beguin, cereal, secretary general JA IDF West, attached to the phone. "We called it the fires of anger, but also the fires of despair, to make feel the discomfort that surrounds the countryside, and the relentlessness that can be experienced on a daily basis," she said. declared. According to her, on each site, a good twenty members had to maintain the fires a good part of the night.
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In other regions, similar operations were organized: in the Marne, from 17 hours, two demonstrations took place in Witry-les-Reims, on the road leading to Charleville-Mézières, with about 70 people according to the FDSEA, and Sainte-Ménehould, with about ten people. In Haute-Garonne, small groups were also to light fires from 21 hours in fields near three or four rural communes around Toulouse, Xavier Dayde, deputy secretary general of the FDSEA 31.
Farmers ready to continue
In the Pas-de-Calais, at Coquelles, near the Channel Tunnel, about 70 local farmers had lit a fire in the open field and positioned about twenty tractors around a roundabout, without blocking access , said a correspondent of AFP. In Calais, a demonstration of the same type, without blockage or clashes, took place at the roundabout near the hospital of the city.
The farmers intended to protest against the NZTs, but not only. "It's been a drop in the water - we're already getting a lot of grip on our practices on a daily basis, while the government admits we have the most sustainable agriculture in the world, so it's nonsense." , said Amandine Muret-Beguin, on the outskirts of the A13, in the Mantes sector. "I think there is a lack of knowledge of the agricultural sector," she lamented, inviting people to "come talk on farms, with farmers." "We do not intend to block, this is not the goal," said the farmer Yvelines, which intends to continue these fires "all week": "After, if it is necessary to continue, the despair is so present that 'we will continue".