‘The suffering has to stop’: French farmers hold memorial ceremony, protests across France

Demonstrators held a silent gathering in the northern French town of Beauvais on Saturday, to pay tribute to a female farmer and her daughter who died when a car ran into a protest roadblock in the southwestern Ariege region earlier this week. “This suffering in the agricultural world has to stop at some point,” FNSEA Farmers’ Union vice-president Luc Smessaert said. Meanwhile, farmers elsewhere in France maintained a series of nationwide protests, arguing government measures announced to quell the demonstrations did not go far enough to meet their demands for better pay and living conditions.