2024-03-05 10:03:48
The international news website News Rebeat published an article on the farmer protests in France.
Day.Az invites readers to familiarize themselves with the translation of the material.
“French farmers marched again to remind the country and the world of the imminent crisis. Without official permission, they marched on tractors and trucks along the Champs Elysees around the Arc de Triomphe. There they unloaded bales of hay in memory of farmers who committed suicide from -for the economic collapse that befell their farm.Seven tractors surrounded the arch.
Farmers surrounded Place Charles de Gaulle and blocked traffic from 4 am. This place is symbolic: it was here that the “Yellow Vests” came – an impoverished and angry middle class that destabilized the government of Emmanuel Macron for two years.
“The angry farmers are going to have breakfast here,” said Rural Coordination spokesman Frédéric Ferrand. “We are determined and we will not back down.”
This is not the first time farmers have occupied the French capital. At the end of January they arrived in Paris to block strategic entrances.
Protesters also carried out a “snail operation” on the A4 motorway towards Paris – between Charenton and Porte de Bercy. Thousands of motorists found themselves stranded.
Farmers’ anger flared last Saturday at the Paris Agriculture Exhibition when one group prevented President Macron from opening the event. He managed to do this only four hours later, after tear gas was used against animals and people and a personal debate was held with representatives of the industry.
The President remained in the Great Hall from 9 am to 8 pm. According to him, the incidents were orchestrated by Marine Le Pen and the National Rally party.
“What Emmanuel Macron said about our proximity to the National Rally is disgusting. He discredits us. Today there are also those who are not members of the trade union. There is no political background to this. This is a protest from the agricultural world,” said the trade unionist Aurelie Hallen.
France’s Energy Transition Minister Agnès Pannier-Runacher noted that “everyone must respect the law and that undeclared demonstrations are illegal.”
The agricultural exhibition closes this Sunday, but the voices of French farmers will continue to be heard,” the article says.
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