See where French farmer roadblocks are intensifying

Roadblocks and rolling blockades are appearing in more regions as the protest by French farmers intensifies following the death of a farmer and her teenage daughter after a car drove into a barricade yesterday (January 23).

Farmers are protesting against the multiplication of European regulations, delays in the payment of government subsidies, the ban on certain common pesticides and tax rises on agricultural diesel.

Last week they started to use farming machines and straw to block the motorways.

Read more: Farmers block several French motorways as protests spread

However, the movement took a tragic turn on Tuesday morning (January 23) as a car in Ariège struck one of the barriers, killing a woman and seriously injuring her husband and 14-year-old daughter.

On Tuesday evening it was announced that the girl had died of her injuries.

Read more: French farmer roadblocks continue: Woman killed as car hits barricade

Nonetheless, the FNSEA president said on January 24 that the movement will continue to intensify, spreading to 85 departments by Friday.

Where are the farmers’ roadblocks?

• Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
  • A7 between Drôme and Isère
  • Between Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux (south of Montélimar) and Saint-Rambert-d'Albon
  • A47 in Givors (Rhône)
  • A49 in Drôme
  • At the intersection of the A71, A75, A89 in Clermont-Ferrand (Puy-de-Dôme)
  • M6 in Limonest, north of Lyon (Rhône)
  • N102 in Ardèche.
• Bretagne
  • At the Iroise bridge in Brest (Finistère)
  • RN12 motorway bridge at Morlaix
  • RN165 interchange in Rouillen
  • N12 in Caulnes and Kernilien (Côtes-d'Armor)
  • N164 in Trémorel
  • N137 between Rennes-Nantes in Ille-et-Vilaine
• Centre-Val de Loire
  • A20 in Châteauroux (Indre)
  • A71 (Cher)
  • Rolling blockades are expected in Montargis, Châteauneuf-sur-Loire, Saran and Ormes (Loiret)

• Grand Est
  • A35 in Strasbourg (Bas-Rhin)
  • A34 near the Woinic service station (Ardennes)

• Hauts-de-France
  • A16 near Calais (Pas-de-Calais)
  • A26 near Setques
  • Junction of RN25 and D60 near Dainville
  • A2 near Marly at the D649 junction (Nord)
  • A16 near Beauvais (Oise)
  • A29 near Glisy (Somme)
  • Rolling blockades in Amiens

• Nouvelle-Aquitaine
  • Bordeaux ring roads (Gironde)
  • A62 near La Réole
  • A63 near Bayonne (Pyrénées-Atlantiques)
  • A64 four exits blocked near Pau and Tarbes
  • RN145 blocked near Guéret/Limoges (Creuse)
  • A89 near Bachellerie (Dordogne)
  • Junction of RN520 and RN20 (Haute-Vienne)
  • A10 in Poitiers Sud (Vienne)
  • A10 between Saint-Jean-d'Angély and Pons (Charente-Maritime)
  • A837 at the Tonnay-Charente interchange
  • Access roads to Niort (Deux-Sèvres)
  • A65 near Mont-de-Marsan (Landes)
  • A63 near Saint-Geours-de-Maremne
• Pays de la Loire
  • A87 near Herbiers (Vendée)
  • A83 near Sainte-Hermine
• Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
  • Rolling blockages on A7 near Orange (Vaucluse)
  • A7 exits between Avignon and Bollène (Drôme)
• Occitanie
  • A64 near Carbonne (Haute-Garonne)
  • A61 near Villefranche-de-Lauragais
  • A62 at Eurocentre
  • A20 between Caussade and Montauban (Tarn-et-Garonne)
  • A62 near Castelsarrasin

The situation is changing quickly, however you can view a real-time map of the roadblocks that are on motorways on the Vinci Autoroutes website here.

What is the government doing about the blockades?

So far the government has sought to appease farmers.

However, a two-hour meeting between the prime minister and the farmers’ unions on Monday evening (January 22) failed to prevent the protests from spreading.

Government spokeswoman Prisca Thevenot announced on January 24 that Prime Minister Gabriel Attal would go to meet the protesters again “very soon”.

“The farming nation has issued a call. We have heard their call and we will answer it,” she said, adding that the government “will defend the French agricultural model so that farmers can earn a living from their work.”

The farmers union is expected to present the government with a list of 40 demands on January 24.

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