The executive is trying to quell the farmers’ discontent. Prime Minister Gabriel Attal will visit “very quickly on the ground”announced the government spokesperson, Prisca Thevenot, Wednesday January 24, after the Council of Ministers. “The blockades are taking place and there is no question of preventing this expression of demand (…) because the demonstrations are organized within a legal framework”she clarified. Some announcements “will arrive in the coming days”continued Prisca Thevenot, referring to discussions on the tax concerning non-road diesel and “cash advances”. Follow our live stream.
Tractors all over France. Farmers are expected this Wednesday in Bayonne and Pau (A63 and A64), around Lyon (M6, A47), on the A7 from Orange to Montélimar, between Valence and Grenoble (A49), between Saint-Amand-Montrond and Bourges (A71), on the Orléans ring road, and on or near many expressways in Brittany (notably the RN12).
Two-step measurements. The government’s measures for farmers should be announced in two stages: first on the sidelines of a trip by Gabriel Attal at the end of the week, then during his general policy speech, scheduled for next Tuesday in the Assembly, we learned France Télévisions with a minister.
The bereaved mobilization. An accident at a blockage in Ariège left two dead on Tuesday. A vehicle crashed into a wall of straw bales in the early morning, killing a farmer and her daughter. The father is seriously injured. An investigation has been opened.