AP-7 was left on in the middle of the morning. limit La Jonquera There have been disruptions in both directions since Friday due to a protest by French farmers in Le Boulou.
Minutes left until 11.30 2 kilometer enclosure at exit 3 and all traffic no longer has to be routed through exit 3, Servei Català de Trànsit (SCT) reports.
Traffic was cut off at noon on Friday, leaving transporters in a difficult situation They will spend the night in parking lots waiting for the border to open. Service areas of La Jonquera and nearby towns.
But other secondary pathways access France they’re not bad For heavy vehicles, trucks accumulate in various parking lots around the area, waiting to be able to move around again. In this case, AP-9 will also remain closed until El Voló.
The protests took place on Friday night in France, with the call of the National Federation of Agricultural Business Associations (FNSEA) and Young Farmers (JJAA), which are the main organizations of the sector. Continuing mobilizations across the country Despite the French Government’s statements to calm the protests.
Macron concessions
The French government announced its measures this Friday calm protests agricultural producers since then They closed the roads eight days ago Throughout the country, however, the sector’s main union called for the movement to be continued, considering these to be insufficient.
Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, among other things, Suppressing diesel price increases for agricultural use and reiterated his opposition to the signing of the agreement between the EU and Mercosur.
“You wanted to send a message (…). The message was received loud and clear,” Attal said during a visit to a farmer in Montastruc-de-Salies in southern France. greater control of negotiations Between manufacturers and distributors, aid to specific sectors such as organic farming and a reduction in administrative procedures.
black friday
Dozens of roadblocks were set up for just over a week.Traffic was normalized on hundreds of kilometers of highway and from the first hour of this Friday some of the main transport routes to Paris have been cut off.
Although the government has assured that it has no such intention Sending police officers to disperse protests, In what was thought to be a peaceful event, some violent incidents were noted, such as the burning of the Executive delegation’s façade in the city of Agen (Southern France) last Wednesday.
Mobilization of French agricultural unions blocked The country’s main roads are on ‘black Friday’ For the movement that caused traffic disruption on the AP-7 highway on the Spain-France border. La Jonquera. Additionally, the French Gendarmerie closed the A9 motorway in both directions in El Pertús. Shortly after 2pm, protesters also blocked the road Departures from Paris, There are barricades at five strategic points on the outskirts of the capital.
The situation was particularly complex around Paris, where farmers wanted to disrupt the mobility of people planning to go out of town. going out this weekend. In Narbonne, the headquarters of the Agricultural Social Mutualism Association was burned down, an act that “clearly had a deliberate origin”, according to Christian Pouget, governor of the Aude region.
The roads in the south of the country, the A9 (motorway entering France via La Jonquera) and the A7 (motorway running between Marseille and Lyon) total 400 kilometer section traffic. “We have never seen anything like this on such a scale and for such a long time,” a spokesman for Vinci Autoroutes, the company that manages these two important road axes, told the France Press agency. Especially these protests in Aude Winemakers called themThey were also responsible for attacks on trucks in October.