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Added on the 22/01/2024 18:33:37 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Police watch as farmers makes their goodbyes before leaving the portion of A1 motorway at Chennevieres-les-Louvres, near Paris international airport Roissy Charles de Gaulle, they had blocked off with tractors. IMAGES
Tractors continued to block the A6 motorway at Chilly-Mazarin, some ten kilometres (6 miles) from Rungis wholesale food market, Paris' key food supply hub. Farmers union Coordination Rurale who had called for the blockade, now sent out the directive to go "towards the National Assembly" in Paris instead. IMAGES
Farmers listen live to French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal giving his general policy statement at the National Assembly, from a motorway blockade near Villabe in Paris outskirts. (COMPLETE VIDI34H939T_EN, VIDI34H93A6_EN, VIDI34H82TM_EN) IMAGES
French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal arrives at a roadblock set up on the A64 freeway near Carbonne, Haute-Garonne, after announcing the government's response to the demands of farmers, who have been protesting for over a week in France. IMAGES
The car "bypassed measures designed to prevent access to this dual two-lane motorway" explained the prefect of the French southwestern department of Ariege Simon Bertoux, after an accident near a roadblock caused the death of a farmer in the department. SOUNDBITE