William Molinié / Photo credit: MAGALI COHEN / HANS LUCAS / HANS LUCAS VIA AFP 1:53 p.m., January 29, 2024

If the FNSEA assures that the objective is not to annoy the French, but to put pressure on the government, several tractors are still heading towards Paris and the Rungis market with the firm intention of blocking traffic . The 15,000 members of the security forces deployed must comply with several instructions.

Detect tractor processions and report, in real time, to their headquarters, the number of vehicles, their position and the direction taken. This is the only mission entrusted, for the moment, to the police and gendarmes while many farmers are converging towards Paris and the Rungis market which they wish to block. 

The first units of mobile forces have been deployed since 4 a.m. this Monday morning, notably on the A106 toll, upstream of Rungis, where the farmers intend to go. The instruction is not to let tractors enter the area of ​​this market of national interest.

Formal ban on entering Paris intramural

Relief routes have been defined and if farmers decide to go to the Paris ring road, the police must ensure that at least one lane of traffic remains accessible to cars and that tractors do not enter inner Paris. -muros.

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If this were the case, it would mean that the defensive system of the police would have been overwhelmed, which would lead the police to enter a new phase: that of the restoration of order. However, this would necessarily be a decision taken at the political level, with several tools made available to law enforcement, ranging from a simple fine for obstructing freedom of movement to arrest and confiscation. of the vehicle, if by chance a farmer tries to force a dam.