After the lifting of several blockades, certain portions of roads and highways will be able to reopen to traffic, very gradually, prefectures have specified.
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A decreasing mobilization, but which continues. The Ministry of the Interior recorded on Friday December 26 12 actions involving 330 people, compared to 93 actions and nearly 4,000 people a week ago. The Rural Coordination (CR) has lifted several motorway blockades in the South-West, where a few die-hard farmers are still blocking certain roads to protest against government management of the contagious lumpy skin disease (LCD) epizootic, but it is calling for “come away even stronger” in January.
The last agricultural blockades still in place on highways are concentrated in Occitanie, notably in Carbonne, south of Toulouse, where a first episode of agricultural mobilization had already started in January 2024.
Farmers worked Friday morning to clean the portion of the highway linking Bordeaux to the Arcachon Basin, the Basque Country and Spain, which they had occupied since December 14. The return to service of this portion of the A63 will be in degraded mode on Saturday at 6 a.m., on a single lane and at limited speed, said the Gironde prefecture, which hopes for a normal reopening no later than Sunday morning, this mid-holiday weekend.
On the A64, “traffic is once again open to traffic in the direction Toulouse – Bayonne”announced on the Pyrénées-Atlantiques prefecture. “On the other hand, the Pau Lescar and Pau Center interchanges remain closed at this time, given the clearing work continuing in the surrounding areas”she adds.
On the Albi ring road, the CR demonstrators, supported by the Peasant Confederation, also left the roadblock installed on the RN88. “There is still a lot of work to restore traffic”according to the Tarn prefecture.
Others maintain or even expand their blockages. On the A75 between Clermont-Ferrand and Béziers, farmers managed to unify the Severac d’Aveyron and Buisson (Lozère) dams, Eloi Nespoulous, co-president of the Aveyron CR, told AFP, specifying that the highway was now closed to traffic for nearly 100 km north of the Millau viaduct.
