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In response to the protests,Gabriel Attal's government scrapped proposed reductions in government subsidies for agricultural diesel and other measures to reduce financial and bureaucratic burdens for farmers, but the protests persisted.[6]
Since October of 2023, smaller-scale pacific actions where have been carried out first inOccitania and then in other regions by farmers such as turning upside down municipal signage, this movement is called "On marche sur la tête", literally "we walk on the head" which is a french expression for "it's nonsense".[7][8]
Jérôme Bayle, one of the leaders of the farmers' movement in France
On 23 January, a 37-year-old Occitan farmer[18] and her 12-year-old daughter were killed after a car crashed into a roadblock where they were standing. The farmer's husband was badly injured.[19][20]
Major roads have been affected in France from January 23.[21] Protesters planned to besiege Paris starting January 29. Some Occitan activists fromLot-et-Garonne of theRural coordination [fr] ofAgen (Karine Duc and José Perez) even managed to enter theRungis market (nearParis) but they were immediately arrested by the police.[22][23]
On 3 June 2024, French farmer unions (TheUltras A64 ofJérôme Bayle and theRural coordination [fr])[26] collaborated with the Catalan farmers' platform Spanish Revolta Pagesa and other Spanish farmer unions to help block crossing points along the Spanish-French border across the length of thePyrenees from theAtlantic Ocean to theMediterranean Sea.[27] Six tractors blocked traffic from the French side.[28]
“Act II” against the EU-Mercosur treaty (November)
In November, the movement started again to dissuade the French government from joining the free trade agreement between the European Union and Mercosur.[29]
While the demands were centered around revenue, they varied throughout the movement, depending on who was expressing them, with some demands appearing once unions had taken the leadership of the movement.[30] The main worries of farmers, according to a poll dating from November 2023 were:[31]
worries linked to income and the economic context were cited by 53% of respondents (with rising costs, market instability and inadequate sales prices at the top of the list);
worries linked to standards, public policies and controls were cited by 35% of respondents (with laws and standards governing practices and controls at the top of the list);
worries linked to the climate context and environmental vulnerability came in third, cited by 25% of respondents (with climate change and its consequences at the top of the list);
lack of consideration and recognition came in 4th place, cited by 19% of farmers questioned.
At the beginning of the movement, Jérôme Bayle, who initiated it, had three demands:[32]
better coverage of damage caused by the epizootic haemorrhagic disease;
cancellation of the tax increase on the diesel used by farmers;
progress on the issue of water reservoirs.
Two of these three demands are directly linked to the impacts of climate change in Occitania, whereJérôme Bayle works.[30]
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