Farmers are mobilizing this Friday, February 23 in Paris on the eve of the opening of the Salon de la Porte de Versailles. They have entered the ring road and are heading towards the Porte de Saint-Cloud.
Day of mobilization of farmers on the eve of the opening of the Salon de la Porte de Versailles. This Friday, February 23, around 6:30 a.m., around fifty tractors, leaving from Seine-et-Marne, arrived on the Paris ring road from the A4 motorway.
They are heading towards Porte de Saint-Cloud, which causes significant slowdowns on the ring road. More than 40 km of traffic jams are recorded on the roads of Ile-de-France by Sytadinan average trend as school holidays continue in the region.
“It’s to show that we will not give up and in any case, as long as we are not in Paris, the government is not afraid,” says Maxence Wittmann, agricultural worker, at the microphone of BFMTV.
Parade to the 7th arrondissement
Once entering Paris through the Porte de Saint-Cloud, the tractors will set up on the square around 8:30 a.m. The convoy will then leave in parade from 10 a.m. to reach the 7th arrondissement and park on Place Vauban, near Les Invalides, at midday.
“From 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., we will welcome all those – simple citizens, elected officials or journalists – who wish to meet farmers to discuss with them the beauty as well as the hardness of their work,” explains rural coordinationat the origin of this action.