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