Farmers from the FNSEA and the JA will begin, on Monday, January 29 from 2 pm, a “siege of the capital” for an “undetermined period.” Eight “blocking points” are planned on the major roads leading to Paris, with highways being the main target. The Ministry of the Interior announces the deployment of a “significant defense system”, particularly around Rungis and the airports in the Paris region.
They arrive in Paris to make their anger heard. Unsatisfied with Prime Minister Gabriel Attal’s announcements, which were aimed at appeasing their discontent but only resulted in a partial lifting of the blockades across the country, the farmers will mobilize once again. Starting Monday, at the call of the FNSEA and the Young Farmers of the Greater Paris Basin, breeders, farmers, and agricultural entrepreneurs will lead a blockade of the capital.
“Starting Monday, January 29 at 2 pm, farmers from the departments of Aisne, Aube, Eure, Eure-et-Loir, Île-de-France, Marne, Nord, Oise, Pas-de-Calais, Seine-et-Marne, Seine-Maritime and Somme, members of the FNSEA network and Young Farmers of the Greater Paris Basin, will begin a siege of the capital for an indefinite period,” the two unions that represent the majority of the profession at the national level announced in a statement 48 hours earlier.
A “significant defense system” Before all regional, the action of local authorities should nevertheless benefit from the support of other organizations. The farmers of the Rural Coordination of Lot-et-Garonne, one of the hotspots of the mobilization, have announced their intention to “go to Paris” from Monday to block the Rungis national interest market.
In anticipation of these new actions, a meeting was held on Sunday morning at the Ministry of the Interior. According to TF1-LCI information, it was instructed to “deploy a significant defense system” to prevent “any blockade of Rungis, the Paris airports and to prevent and then prohibit any entry into Paris.” Gerald Darmanin announced Sunday evening that 15,000 members of law enforcement would be mobilized on Monday to prevent tractors from entering “Paris and the big cities” and blockades of the Rungis market and the Paris airports.
