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Despite the executive's attempts to convince the demonstrators to stop their mobilization, the farmers moved closer, Wednesday, January 31, to Paris and the Rungis wholesale market.
Fifteen people were in police custody at midday after being arrested for "obstructing traffic" near the Rungis market, which angry farmers are threatening to take over.
Heard in the Senate, the president of the FNSEA, the main agricultural union, affirmed that he was trying to "call for calm and reason" in the face of the anger of farmers, believing that many "European subjects" do not " not settled in three days.
The European Commission has proposed several measures to try to calm the anger of the agricultural world in Europe, including the establishment of an "emergency brake" on imports of certain agricultural products from Ukraine.
With AFP
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