one dead and two injured after an accident at a blockage in Ariège

In a press release, the prefect of Ariège returned to the fatal accident at an Ariège blockage point. The accident occurred around 5:45 a.m., in the town of Pamiers, “near the RD119 bridge”.

“At this stage the report shows one person dead and two seriously injured,” adds the prefecture. “A psychological support unit has been set up on the ground,” indicates the prefect.

A mother died in Pamiers, in Ariège, at a blockage point, after being hit by a car.

As the prosecution indicated to BFMTV, the occupants of the vehicle were arrested and placed in police custody.

“I invite farmers to be vigilant about safety conditions,” urged Arnaud Rousseau, president of the FNSEA, on BFMTV, after the fatal accident at an Ariège blockade point.

“Getting our messages across also means ensuring everyone’s safety (…) There is an absolute necessity to avoid this type of dramatic accident which leaves us all in mourning,” he added.

Guest of BFMTV, the president of the FNSEA, Arnaud Rousseau, returned to the fatal accident which occurred at an Ariège blockage point.

“A dramatic road accident occurred at a blockage point, which led to the death of a mother and the rescue services of her husband and her 14-year-old daughter,” he said. he detailed, specifying that he had no information on the condition of the two injured.

A woman died, her husband and her daughter were injured this morning, at the blockade point of Pamiers, in Ariège, announced the FNSEA president, Arnaud Rousseau, on RMC.

“Three members of our members suffered a serious accident,” he said. “Her husband and daughter are in complicated condition” and were taken care of by emergency services.

“This kind of drama is difficult to live with,” added Arnaud Rousseau.

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“There is widespread fed up. On the one hand, by the lack of remuneration, by total disarray”, lambasted, at the microphone of BFMTV, Thierry Sénéclauze, cereal producer in Drôme, who is participating in the blocking of the A7.

“We are looking at 30 to 40 years of reduction in farmers’ income (…) We are not going to find the solution today,” he added.

The farmer also explained that the blockage would continue “all day”, or even the following days, in the event of no response from the government.

Highway blockades by farmers are spreading. As indicated by the prefect of Pyrénées-Atlantiques, on X, the A63 is “blocked in both directions between Bayonne and Bordeaux at the Adour / Hubert-Touya bridge” in Bayonne.

According to our colleagues at South West, six tractors block the tracks.

Since yesterday, the A62 has been blocked at Agen in both directions. Farmers also dumped tires on the railway tracks at the entrance to Agen station, where traffic has been blocked since around 6:15 p.m.

On site, around 200 tractors blocked the tracks. “We are ready for anything, we have nothing left to lose (…) we are going to go to the prefecture, we are going to see the administrations,” explained a farmer on BFMTV.

“Today, there is no other solution, we are not listened to (…) “We are fed up, we will not die without saying anything,” he said. -he adds.

After the blocking actions of French farmers, the government fears a conflagration. From the Netherlands to Romania via Poland and Germany, farmers are stepping up actions against tax increases and the European “Green Deal”.

European ministers from the agricultural sector are meeting today in Brussels, before the launch on Thursday of a “strategic dialogue” intended to “overcome the divide in the debates on the ecological transition” at the heart of the legislative texts of the Green Deal of the EU.

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After the A64, the A7 and the A62, the farmers’ blocking movement could spread. The Young Farmers of Oise announced to AFP a blockage of the A16 motorway today at the start of the afternoon near Beauvais.

As Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin announced, “no evacuation of the blockages by the police is planned at this stage because there is no damage”.

Since 4 a.m. this morning, the A7 motorway has been blocked in both directions near Saint-Rambert-d’Albon, by “around thirty tractors with trailers containing bales of straw and slurry”, announced the prefect of Drôme in a press release.

“At this stage, around a hundred vehicles are blocked on the highway, mainly heavy goods vehicles and a bus. Evacuation via the service barriers made it possible to remove a few vehicles,” adds the prefect.

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In Tarn-et-Garonne, three roundabouts accessing the Golfech nuclear power plant, which supplies electricity to the Toulouse basin, have also been blocked by around fifty tractors since yesterday.

At the microphone of BFMTV, Francis Ambrosio, FDSEA general secretary in the department, explains that he only received “6,000 euros” of income in 2022.

“Systematically, large retailers put pressure on the supplier, and the supplier puts pressure on us. The adjustment value is the farmer,” he criticizes.

Traffic was severely disrupted yesterday evening due to the damage to the facilities between Marmande & Agen by demonstrators, indicates the SNCF on its website.

“As a result of these delays, the traffic of your TGV INOUI and INTERCITES may suffer residual disruptions,” we can read.

Between the blocking of the A64 motorway and a nighttime explosion in the offices of the Ministry of the Environment in Carcassonne, the anger of farmers has increased in recent days. Enough to give the government a cold sweat, which is currently playing the cuddle therapy card.

“Now is the time to listen. It’s not the only answer but it feels good, it’s important,” analyzes Jérémy Decerle, Macronist MEP and former president of Young Farmers, speaking to BFMTV.com.

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Arnaud Gaillot, president of Jeunes Agriculteurs, spoke yesterday on BFMTV of the fed up shared by his colleagues with the fact that distributors, notably E.Leclerc, “can make their bread on the backs of farmers”.

The rebellious MP defended on BFMTV a French “agricultural exception”, a thesis he has been defending for “two decades”.

According to François Ruffin, this must be done “in the same way that we brought culture out of international treaties”.

He then proposed four measures: floor prices, import quotas, production quotas and a multiplier coefficient not to be exceeded between production costs and the sales price.

Due to a demonstration, the A7 motorway is blocked in both directions in Drôme, between Chans and Tain-l’Hermitage, we can read on the official X account of the motorway.

Hello everyone, welcome to this live broadcast dedicated to the mobilization of farmers. Angry at the increase in taxes and the accumulation of standards, particularly European ones, operators are expecting strong measures from the government.