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Added on the 25/01/2024 10:38:59 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
People slow-drive their tractors on a motorway in the Yvelines department, near Paris, as tempers continue to flare among French farmers who are threatening more protest actions if their demands are not met. IMAGES
With five days to go until the Paris Agricultural Show, angry farmer sin the north of France are keeping the pressure on the French government, driving a hundred tractors on main roads near Dunkirk. With five days to go until the Paris Agricultural Show, angry farmers in the north of France are driving a hundred tractors on main roads near Dunkirk. At the call of the unions FDSEA 59 and the Young Farmers, they are heading towards the regional authority on environment, planning and housing in Gravelines to protest a project to extend the port of Dunkirk, which threatens to close down several farms. 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
French farmers are beginning to dismantle their campsite on the A6 motorway at Chilly-Mazarin, in Paris southern suburbs. Farmers' largest unions FNSEA and Young Farmers have called for the blockades to be lifted following the new measures announced by the government. 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
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