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Added on the 04/03/2021 13:36:47 - Copyright : AFPTV - First 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
French farmers block traffic around Paris's famed Arc de Triomphe monument with tractors and bales of hay. IMAGES
Oreillette, the Normande-breed cow chosen to be the mascot of the 2024 Paris International Agricultural Show arrives with owner François Foucault and gets settled on the eve of the official opening of the fair. 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