
Since the early hours of Friday (December 19), farmers have gathered outside the Macron couple's seaside holiday home in Touquet, organizing a symbolic demonstration, with tractors, banners and a coffin for the " death of the rural world ."
"Eat French food" and "Stop taxes" were some of the slogans on banners in front of the villa, which is guarded by security forces.
In fact, farmers threw entire carts of cabbages and tires outside the French president's house as part of their action.
Following the announcement by Von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, on Thursday evening, to postpone the signing of the EU-Mercosur agreement to January, the confederation of farmers' associations FNSEA considered this decision "insufficient" and called on its members to continue the protests.
For several days, hundreds of farmers and other producers, especially in the southwest of the country, have organized blockades, demonstrations and even gone as far as Brussels to express their dissatisfaction.
The dissatisfaction relates both to the way France is dealing with the epidemic of lumpy skin disease (LSD), and to the signing of the free trade agreement with Mercosur.
"The president is fighting for French agriculture and French farmers," Emmanuel Macron's aide told BFMTV on Friday morning.