2024-01-31 18:05:29
Tensions in Rungis. 79 people were arrested on Wednesday at the Rungis market (Val-de-Marne), after an intrusion by farmers into a “storage area” of the wholesale market where “damage” was committed, said a police source.
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People “on foot briefly entered a storage area” and “committed damage” there, added this source. They were “removed from the premises by the police”, she added, specifying that no one was now inside the site. The director of the Rungis market has decided to file a complaint, a police source also told Le Parisien.
These arrests are in addition to the placement in police custody, earlier in the day, of 15 other people, arrested near Rungis (Val-de-Marne).
“Responsible farmers”
Around 4:50 p.m., several dozen farmers, including some members of the Lot-et-Garonne Rural Coordination, arrived in front of warehouses on the edge of the Rungis market. The symbol of a “mission accomplished” for Serge Bousquet-Cassagne, president of the Lot-et-Garonne chamber of agriculture who led the procession. “We decided to invest in Rungis, we invested in Rungis,” he said.
At least five farmers entered a building several times and then left, without violence, escorted by the police. Arrested, some got into law enforcement trucks and a trap formed, while Serge Bousquet-Cassagne urged them to “stay calm” and “not be afraid”. “You risk nothing and you know it,” he told his troops massed in front of the gray buildings. “We didn’t damage anything!” “, repeated the manager in front of the journalists present.
“Now they are surrounding us, it is the normal work of the police, and we, because we are Republicans, responsible farmers, all fathers and mothers of families here, we are not going to risk fighting for nothing,” he declared a few minutes before the arrest, assuring that the “vehicles (of the CRS) are in no risk and neither are they.”
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