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Added on the 27/11/2019 09:34:30 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
About 150 tractors are blocking access to the A6 motorway at Villabe, some 40 km (25 miles) south of Paris. Farmers all over France are intensifying their protest ahead of further government announcements due later today. IMAGES
Tractors parade through the streets of Paris on the eve of the start of the Paris International Agricultural Show. The week-long fair, a major annual meeting for both the public and French politicians, opens in a climate of intense discontent, revived by President Emmanuel Macron's proposal for a large round table to which farmers refuse to participate. IMAGES
Police watch as farmers makes their goodbyes before leaving the portion of A1 motorway at Chennevieres-les-Louvres, near Paris international airport Roissy Charles de Gaulle, they had blocked off with tractors. IMAGES
With their tractors and haystack-filled tipper lorries stationed on A6 motorway, French farmers are facing a police roadblock as they near Rungis, the world's second largest wholesale food market, just south of Paris. IMAGES
French farmers are using their tractors to block off motorway A16 by Amblainville toll booth in the region of Oise, an hour north of Paris. Farmers union FDSEA Ile-de-France is announcing five blockades around Paris from 2pm to increase the pressure on Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, who is due to announce a first set of measures to try to calm their anger. IMAGES