Farmers: filter dams in Marciac, host of the jazz festival – The Point

Several hundred angry farmers have erected roadblocks Tuesday filter the inputs of the village of Marciac Gers, since Monday host the largest jazz festival in France, found an AFP journalist.

At the southern entrance, from Tarbes, a farmer distributed leaflets on which was written “WANTED” above a photo of the Minister of Agriculture Stéphane Le Foll, which was announced Tuesday in the village but ultimately was not to come.

Further , tractors and hay bales wore signs “Le Foll resignation.”

The event took place in a friendly atmosphere, with barbecue and drink. Tourists seemed to play the game, exchanging a few words with the farmers before returning fitted with a leaflet.

Farmers also “controlled all the restaurants in the city,” told AFP the president of the Departmental Federation of Trade Unions of Farmers’ (FDSEA) Gers Bernard Malabirade. “We have found meat from all sources. We put a poster in front of some restaurants, + meat nowhere + or + meat by + if she was French,” he said.

According to the breeders of the Gers, 350 of them rallied Tuesday for this action during the jazz festival, scheduled to end on August 16. The gendarmes divide that number by two.

“We are not there to prevent the smooth running of the festival, but to show our anger,” said Mr. Malabirade. The general secretary of the FDSEA of Gers, Christian Cardona, said: “Farmers are tired of working a lifetime without being able to get out of wages We want less stress and more prizes, to sustain the farm. because it devotes himself 365 days a year. ”

On Wednesday, Mr. Malabirade is hopeful to meet Prime Minister Manuel Valls, who has to go to Marciac. “We no longer want to talk with the Minister of Agriculture (…) and the first thing we will ask (Mr. Valls, note) is to change minister,” Does -he said.

At midday, fifty farmers dumped manure in front of a store in Pinaguel (Haute-Garonne), some ten kilometers from Toulouse. They entered and found “95% of foreign meat,” he said by telephone to AFP Florian Leguay, Young Farmers of the department.

“I think the government has not had understand how distressed we were, and what we were ready, “he warns

7/28/2015 3:53:46 p.m. -. Marciac (France) (AFP) – AFP © 2015