VIDEO. At 15 blocked by farmers: “Even if I struggle in traffic jams, I support them”

2024-01-31 00:08:08

Géraldine points her camera towards the A15 motorway, completely blocked by tractors, right in front of her. “To remember that, because it’s important, it’s very important,” slips this local resident. In Argenteuil, there are many like her who come to contemplate from a bridge the farmers’ blockade below. Dozens of tractors have not let any motorists pass since the day before, but most of them that we passed this Tuesday afternoon do not hold it against them. Despite the increased difficulty of their daily journeys.

David, a plumber, smiles at the wheel of his van “It’s misery. Since this morning I have been in trouble. But they are still right.” “They are honking on the highway, I think people support the farmers,” adds Mario, another resident.

Around ten activists close to the sovereignist movement of the “Patriots” of the former FN Florian Philippot wave flags a little further away. The concert of horns does not weaken. “It’s not just the farmers who are outraged by everything that’s happening. We are a nation. We are not the rednecks against the bobos. We all eat the same,” remarks Géraldine.