The Ministry of the Interior recorded blockages on Saturday morning on the A75, in Buisson (Lozère) and in Sévérac d’Aveyron, the A64 in Carbonne (Haute-Garonne), the RN88 in Baraqueville, near Rodez, and the RD1124 in Ordan-Larroque, at the entrance to Auch.
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Mobilization weakens but persists in places. Farmers are still blocking some roads and highways in Occitania on Saturday, December 27, to protest against government management of bovine dermatosis, after the lifting of almost all the blockades in New Aquitaine on Friday. The Ministry of the Interior recorded blockages on Saturday morning on the A75, in Buisson (Lozère) and in Sévérac d’Aveyron, the A64 in Carbonne (Haute-Garonne), the RN88 in Baraqueville, near Rodez, and the RD1124 in Ordan-Larroque, at the entrance to Auch. It also covered a last dam in New Aquitaine, on the RD824 in Tartas (Landes).
During the night from Friday to Saturday, farmers again dumped straw and waste in front of the Gers prefecture to protest in particular against the slaughter of entire herds at the slightest detected case of lumpy skin disease (LCD), noted an AFP journalist. “The Christmas holidays are over, we’re ready to celebrate New Year’s Eve”, assured AFP Vincent Arbusti, spokesperson for the Rural Coordination (CR) of Gers, on a dam at the entrance to Auch.
Some 250 kilometers northeast of Auch, on the A75 which links Clermont-Ferrand to Béziers, farmers succeeded on Friday in unifying the blockages of Severac d’Aveyron and Buisson, Eloi Nespoulous, co-president of the CR de l’Aveyron, told AFP on Friday evening, affirming that the highway was now closed to traffic for nearly 100 km north of the Millau viaduct.
“We joined up with the CR48 at La Canourgue to block a 20 km portion which was still open” between the two areas already closed to traffic in Lozère and Aveyron. “We poured so that it would be closed,” he clarified.
In New Aquitaine, the CR lifted several motorway blockades on Friday, but it calls for “come away even stronger” in January. “After 12 days of struggle, we break camp at Cestas,” south of Bordeaux, declared in a press release the CR Gironde, which deplores the “silence” and the “contempt” opposed by the executive. That of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques confirmed to AFP the dismantling of the dams on the A64 at Briscous, near Bayonne, and at a toll booth in Pau.
