Farmers from Rural Coordination on their way to demonstrate in Paris

“We are on the way, by tractor, but for the moment nothing is happening, because gendarmes are stationed far from Paris on the roads to wait for us,” Patrick Legras, spokesperson for Rural Coordination, told Patrick Legras.

Several meeting points in the Paris region

The movement has planned several meeting points in the Paris region for demonstrators recognizable by their yellow caps, on the routes converging from the west, north, east and south towards Paris.

“Voluntarily, we divided the organization of this day and the days to come between only five people,” indicated the president of the movement Véronique Le Floc’h on RMC. “Everyone is responsible for where farmers gather, whether they are in a car or a tractor.”

An arrest

Customary of punchy actions, the CR wishes to obtain guarantees from the Prime Minister for the defense of agriculture focused on the protection of small farmers whom it considers crushed by free trade. Christian Convers was to participate in the evening in Paris in a gathering of farmers at Place du Brazil, in the 17th arrondissement, a place symbolically chosen to denounce the recent trade agreement between the European Union and Mercosur.