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Added on the 23/01/2024 13:05:39 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
French farmers are at the gates of the Rungis wholesale market, under the close surveillance of police who has set up a roadblock by the entrance. The President of the largest farmers union FNSEA is calling for "calm and reason" while the government is trying to appease the anger of the farming community. 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
Farmers on tractors block the A1 motorway near Lille to keep up the pressure on the government as it prepares its response to the profession's anger. IMAGES
Farmers on tractors block the A16 motorway near Beauvais in northern France. Demonstrations continue across France, the day after a meeting with the government of new French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal and as a meeting of European ministers for the sector gets under way. 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