The french farmers They are preparing to take their tractors to Paris and blockade the French capital, but they have been protesting for days in different ways, also with actions against large commercial stores, which they blame for receiving extraordinary profits while they continue in losses.

In one of the main squares of Montpellier, protesters gathered around a bonfire and in Agen, the epicenter of the protests, they have turned the access to their prefecture into a landfill and blocked the station entrance train with dirt and tires. There, a few days ago they threw such a quantity of manure on the roof of a supermarket that the roof could not support the weight, while in Clemont-l’Herault they literally plowed the asphalt of the parking lot of a commercial establishment.

In Draguignan, protesters collapsed access to institutional buildings releasing a flock of sheep and illuminated the night of Bordeaux burning pallets in front of his Town Hall. In addition, throughout the week they have closed roads and boycotted Spanish carriers. “I have stopped earning money, but hey, it is what it is,” one of them resigns.

The protesters are not convinced by the words of Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, who has assured that he will not leave French agriculture “at the mercy of unfair competition“, pointing to countries such as Spain and Italy, which use phytosanitary products prohibited in France in foods that are then sold there. Attal visited an agricultural farm again this Sunday to calm tensions with the sector, which he asks for four months to work in a law that improves the situation.

Despite this, the unions maintain this indefinite blockade of the capital. Farmers demand wage improvements, the reduction of environmental restrictions, aid against the rise in diesel prices and an increase in the protection of the countryside against imports from other countries. In this sense, they even fear that Ukraine’s entry into the European Union will increase competitiveness. Thus, and although the protests have deflated in recent hours, They intend to besiege Paris this Monday.