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Added on the 23/01/2024 12:56:51 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
The search for Lina, a 15-year-old girl who disappeared last September in the Bas-Rhin region, resumes at the Anould site (Vosges). IMAGES
Tractors continued to block the A6 motorway at Chilly-Mazarin, some ten kilometres (6 miles) from Rungis wholesale food market, Paris' key food supply hub. Farmers union Coordination Rurale who had called for the blockade, now sent out the directive to go "towards the National Assembly" in Paris instead. 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
French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin says he has instructed police to show "great moderation" toward farmers who have blocked highways as part of a nationwide protest movement against agricultural policies. SOUNDBITE
The car "bypassed measures designed to prevent access to this dual two-lane motorway" explained the prefect of the French southwestern department of Ariege Simon Bertoux, after an accident near a roadblock caused the death of a farmer in the department. SOUNDBITE