“The State is bothering us so we are going to bother it a little.” A collective of activists from the Eure-et-Loir Rural Coordination, as well as other non-unionized farmers, attacked road radars.
According to L’Echo Républicain, the tractors carrying bales of straw left this Sunday afternoon for Digny to neutralize the department’s fixed and mobile radars. The group has given itself the mission of attacking all the radars in this rural department during the night.
By demanding “educational and non-punitive” controls, farmers denounce that the rules in France are more restrictive than elsewhere.
There is “this disparity between European countries. France uses 3.7 kg of phytoproducts per hectare, compared to 10.9 kg in the Netherlands, 4.6 in Spain and 7.1 in Ireland,” one of them explains to L ‘Echo Républicain, which fears that the disparity will worsen. with the agreement with Mercosur.
Radars pointed in Indre-et-Loire
Further south, in the Centre-Loire Valley region, it is in the department of Indre-et-Loire where farmers had also attacked the radars a few days before. Covers, piles of spilled manure… The radars were neutralized near the cities of Sainte-Catherine-de-Fierbois and Sorigny at the end of last week, indicates La Nouvelle République.
Actions that have not been claimed. The FNSEA and the Young Farmers of Department 37 assure that they are not at the origin of these attacks despite the presence of posters with their colors near the radars.
Source: BFM TV
