Cournon-d'Auvergne (France) (AFP)

Emmanuel Macron, came to support the breeders in Cournon-d'Auvergne, also fiercely retaliated Friday, judging "unacceptable" the "violence" against "elected officials" who were expelled Thursday from the Summit of the for voting for the EU-Canada Free Trade Agreement.

"Violence is unacceptable to an elected representative of the Republic, nothing justifies violence against an elected representative of the Republic, otherwise we will have threats on the grounds that an elected did not vote this or that, we will be legitimate to break them the storefront "declared the President of the Republic at the end of an impromptu visit and jostled among the cows.

"I said this morning very clearly to the representatives (of the agricultural world, Editor's note), not only do I condemn it, but for me it is an attitude that they should themselves officially condemn. not to condone that, I understand the anger, but the problems we will not solve them like that, it is anti-democratic and anti-republican "added the president.

The two LREM deputies chastised by the breeders, Roland Lescure and Jean-Baptiste Moreau, denounced their evacuation of the show, Roland Lescure regretting "strongly that an agitating minority vehemently interrupted a debate around the issues of Ceta".

This summer, many parliamentary meetings of elected representatives of the majority were also degraded after the ratification vote by the National Assembly on July 23 of the EU-Canada Free Trade Agreement.

"Thursday's action was a bit harsh, but at the height of the exasperation of the breeders vis-à-vis these deputies, and it has our full support" told AFP Patrick Bénézit, deputy secretary general of the FNSEA.

"Breeders can no longer see some MPs telling us that it would be good for us to see 65,000 tonnes of Canadian meat, produced with banned substances in Europe, arriving on the French market, while we are not not to sell ours at fair prices "added Mr. Bénézit.

"The breeders have more than enough that a certain parliamentarian calling himself a farmer insults our profession" he added, targeting Jean-Baptiste Moreau, himself a farmer. He recalled that Mr. Lescure, "who represents the French living abroad, lives in Canada".

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