A tractor blockade established at eight points around Paris is intended to “starve Parisians”, a French farmer has claimed.
Benoit Durand, a grain farmer, told French broadcaster BFM TV: “We are holding a siege in Chartres, one hour away from Paris. It’s part of the blockade… the goal is to put pressure on the government.”
”[Blockading Paris] will happen naturally. Parisians are going to be hungry. The goal is to starve Parisians. That’s it”.
Around 800 tractors have surrounded the capital as farmers protest what they say are stringent environmental regulations, red tape and low pay.
Near Beauvais, north of Paris, dozens of tractors lined the highway in one of many such protests across the country, displaying banners that read: “Our end will be your hunger” – a play on the similar-sounding French words fin (end) and faim (hunger).
Armoured police vehicles were deployed to Rungis on Monday after some farmers threatened to “occupy” it. Over 8,000 tons of goods pass through its market every day to feed nearly 12 million people.
In the event of major disruption, Paris would only have three days’ food supplies, as deliveries are made every day, according to government agency Ademe.
Read more here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/01/29/french-farmer-protests-latest-paris/
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I’m currently 25 kom north of Paris not far from was de Airport um at Louvre as you can see behind me dozens of tractors are blocking the A1 motorway farmers are laying siege to Paris as they put it at eight points around the capital and they say they won’t budge until the
Government gives them more concessions aim to starve Paris no clearly not I mean uh if you hear about r today I think it’s a very small minority wants to do that for now the idea is just to to find solution to speak with the the government and and to to have the the
Solution on on the points we want and and as explained to go back on some laws that we find completely ridiculous and unapplicable and creating for us some some problem with the ud de célbrités français la même chose que jé Clarkson sur la série Clarkson à la ferme c’est une série Amazon Prime
C’est tout ce qu’il a expliqué c’est le pourquoi du comment on est là aujourd’hui ça été vos normes à vous par rapport au brexit tout ce que vous avez vécu et aussi les normes environnementales c’est tout a été expliqué et nous en France on dit exactement la même chose voilà tout
Simplement donc c’est pas uniquement une question de l’Union européenne alors c’est vraiment juste une question de de bureaucratie aussi si si si de bureaucratie l’Union européenne les agriculteurs anglais ont voté ét pour le brexit à la base le gouvernement leur a promis que le à la place des zpac ils seront versés
Par le gouvernement en place finalement ils toujours après voilà nous on est pas là à vouloir sortir de l’Europe c’est encore un autre débat mais sur tout ce qui est question environnementale c’est exactement les mêmes choses en France voilà on est ici aujourd’hui on a le bol on est ici pour défendre notre
Revenu on en a marre de l’administrative qui est excessive dans notre pays par rapport à notre métier aux normes aux normes que que la France rajoute en plus des normes européennes on a 140 revendications total voilà on est ici pour deux ou TR jours et on ne
Bougera pas d’ici tant que toutes ces revendications ne sonont par notre gouvernement et vous n’avez pas peur de d’être trop énervé les les Parisiens à les bloquer comme ça malheureusement il il faut un peu ce qu’il faut ça n fait pas plaisir d’être d’être ici c’est au gouvernement de faire les
Les choses rapidement et on partira le plus vite possible on a du boulot aussi sur nos exploitations
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Whats up with the religious nut job throwing water on tractors?
i think people sympathies with these farmers more than certain other (Canadian) protesters because they're grievances are more reasonable to understand where they are coming from. And unlike a certain group of truckers they seem to be mostly away from populated areas where they wouldn't be a danger to the residency
french are the worst
Are the French ever not protesting something?
rather then wasting the food they should hand it out for free to spite the goverment.
it would not only make the farmers look good but give the poor a chance to get food they never would have even been able to try before.
What specific issues is this about?
Not gonna lie it looks fun to participate. Those tractors are worth as much or more than most exotic sports cars and they’re holding an illegal rally essentially. Lmao
Bloody hell. Go Clarkson!
I love Clarkson's content..But is this a paid promotion for Jeremy's Farm? The video doesn't give any specifics about why the Farmers are protesting. …No wonder most comments are only about Jeremy Clarkson reference…
Jeremy Clarkson is always right.
who would've thunk Jeremy Clackson becomes a hero to the surrender monkies
They ain’t losing on an imminent losing battle.
Im not the one stuck behind it in traffic so they look glorious and ya know what even if i was good for them!
Just admitted, Europe is not meant to be united
this is not about clarkson its against the wef controlling government's without our support
No more farming subsidies. These people are complaining that they cant compete with people in third world countries who drag their own plow by hand. Subsidized farming is evil. I may be a socialist but I do believe in the free marked. Remove all farming subsidies now.
love these guys
"Clarkson's Farm" was honestly a very entertaining series but more importantly it really showed so many people just how hard farming communities are being hit and are receiving so little help
I just find it interesting that the farmers are using citizens as pawns just like the government.
Holy heck
What an amazing thing, church supporting simple, good men, in my "God loving" Georgia church stands with criminal government, of course most of the priests here are filthy rich and have orogins from criminal or Soviet background. Our patriarch Ilia the second is former spy of KBG. Crazy world.
Theyre blocking roads like the stop oil protesters but I feel like I can actually respect them alot more.
CLARKSONNNNNNNNNN
When are the French not protesting?
His genius is not only audible, frightening, and capable of generating gravity, but it causes nations to rise against their governments.
Bro buy a microphone so we can hear them
FOR CLARKSON, THEY CANT KILL ALL OF US!!!
As a foreigner, what is the objective of the protest ? Legit question
We're too tough on the little people with environmental regulations and laws whilst still letting the big and powerful companies/people effectively do what they want. I get that we need to be making changes about how we do stuff but we need to be focusing our efforts on the actual big polluters, farming itself is fine by comparison.
In the EU farming is over regulated to the point of protesting. In the USA, it’s under regulated to the point where farmers poison our groundwater and above ground water and get subsidized to do so!