International farmers bring support and more tractors to France protests

International farmers bring support and more tractors to France protests

How hard was it to get here because uh harder harder than what you think it’s not actually that far it’s about 3 and a half hours in the car to get here um the first of them left Monday morning 9:00 from AIA the south of France from the

South west France came to came to L Mo for the first night stayed there and we joined them with the Convoy then and it’s taking us now two days to get here the whole way up been the roads been barricaded and blocked by police every time we’ve always managed to get out of

Them get away and get our move mooth through traffic to get this far but um we we weren’t supposed to get here that was we understood that from the day one we weren’t supposed to get here and did you get here in a tractor or we came

With a truck with tractors on the bike on the flat bedad on the bike and where are the tractors now just right down the road so it took a while to get here we’re here but uh as you can see we’re all going to get arrested now for be here so

Dozens of farmers were arrested on Wednesday night as they stormed a wholesale food market dubbed the “belly of Paris” that feeds 12 million people daily.

Emmanuel Macron’s government had warned farmers besieging the French capital not to approach airports or Rungis, the vast food distribution hub to the South of Paris which is the world’s largest fresh food market.

But that failed to take into account the level of anger over what farmers view as unacceptably low pay, stifling red tape and environmental norms, as well as unworkable European agricultural policy and unfair competition from foreign rivals.

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