Description
Added on the 09/01/2023 17:21:34 - Copyright : Euronews EN
Employees at French retailer Casino are demonstrating outside the group's headquarters in Vitry-sur-Seine, south of Paris. Unions called for the protest as thefood retail group has declared itself to be in financial difficulty, saying it is ready to sell stores to competitors. The group owns several supermarket chains such as Monoprix, Franprix, Exito, Pao de Acucar... 200,000 employees work for the Casino group worldwide including 50,000 in France. IMAGES
French Ecology Minister Christophe Bechu and Agriculture Minister Marc Fesneau are booed and hissed at at the Paris international Agricultural Show by around twenty people shouting "Fesneau resign" and holding up signs reading "Come back down to earth", as the two ministers are forced to leave the stand of Ademe, the French Environment and Energy Management Agency. IMAGES
French farmers block traffic around Paris's famed Arc de Triomphe monument with tractors and bales of hay. IMAGES
French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal talks with shopkeepers as he visits the market in Royan, a seaside town on France's Atlantic coast, before meeting local representatives of farmers, who are still unhappy despite the assurances he has given them. IMAGES
A day after 91 people were arrested for trespassing, French police are checking vehicles at the entrance to Rungis wholesale food market, a vital distribution hub for the capital region's 12 million people. French farmers' anger continues unabated, and the crisis is taking centre stage at a European summit to be attended by French President Emmanuel Macron. IMAGES
A convoy of protesting farmers on their way to the wholesale Rungis market, south of Paris -- a key food distribution hub for the capital, was blocked by police at Sully-sur-Loire, in north-central France. IMAGES