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Added on the 30/01/2024 10:19:58 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
French police has stopped a farmers' convoy of hundreds tractors heading towards the Rungis wholesale food market south of Paris. Some 200 to 300 tractors are now sitting in the town of Sully-sur-Loire, 170 km south of Rungis. Setting off from the south-west of France at the call of union Coordination rurale, the group of angry farmers grew as they drove up the nation, with more and more joining along the way. IMAGES
With their tractors and haystack-filled tipper lorries stationed on A6 motorway, French farmers are facing a police roadblock as they near Rungis, the world's second largest wholesale food market, just south of Paris. IMAGES
About 150 tractors are blocking access to the A6 motorway at Villabe, some 40 km (25 miles) south of Paris. Farmers all over France are intensifying their protest ahead of further government announcements due later today. IMAGES
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