the Foix prefecture receives a suspicious package containing substances resembling bovine viscera

This package containing bovine offal received Monday at the prefecture, was found around ten days after the start of massive mobilizations of farmers on the roads, of which those in the southwest are the epicenter.

A suspicious package containing substances resembling bovine viscera was discovered on Monday December 22 at the Foix prefecture (Ariège), while farmers are demonstrating throughout France against health measures linked to the epidemic of contagious lumpy skin disease, franceinfo learned from a source close to the matter.

Monday morning, around 10:15 a.m., a secretary from the Foix prefecture opened a package emitting a suspicious odor. It contained substances resembling bovine viscera. The package isolation protocol has been put in place. Analyzes are underway to rule out any risk of chemical fumes. Biological tests are also underway.

From 4,000 people on Friday to 720 on Sunday in France, the mobilization of farmers, opposed in particular to the government policy of mass slaughter of cattle in the event of lumpy skin disease (LCD), declined this weekend, even if a few points of blockage persisted on Monday in the southwest a few days before Christmas.

During the night from Sunday to Monday, demonstrators from the Peasant Confederation, Rural Coordination and a local collective lifted the blockade in Tarascon-sur-Ariège, on the RN20, a strategic axis between France and Andorra, after ten days of mobilization.