It is just over 150 years, in the wake of their country's defeat in the Franco Prussian war of 1871, that French citizens raise the barricades and laid siege to central Paris. The uprising was short lived and its conclusion bloody but it changed French society. Previous instances of barricades being raised occurred in 1815 as the empire built by Napoleon Bonaparte disintegrated and many poorer people faced starvation, (if you've read any of Victor Hugo's multi - volume novel Les Miserables or seen a movie, TV dramatisation or the musical you've some idea of how that one turned out.
In 1789 the Paris commune took over the city and were the municipal government until 1795. The French have a track record for the kind of thing that is going on now. This time however, the barricades are not old furniture and junk, they are formed of tractors, farm vehicles and piles of brown, smelly stuff usually found in abundance even on the best kept farms. Yes, far from petering out the French farmer's protests we reported last week seem to be escalation into a full scale rebellion against the globalist, neo - liberal government of Emmanuel Macron and his World Economic Forum bosses.
As the well organised Farmers prepared to put into action their plan to besiege Paris and cut off supply routes delivering food to the city of approx 9 million people, the government revealed that it was in panic mode by calling in the military even at this early stage.
The farmers had announced they would begin an “indefinite siege” of the capital today (Monday 29 January,) after staging widespread protests in provincial cities last week warning Parisians of a “black week ahead” amid an escalating dispute over pay, tax and regulations.
All major roads leading into Paris were to be “occupied” by agricultural workers as they sought to raise the pressure on President Emmanuel Macron’s government, farmers unions said.
FNSEA, the country’s largest farmer’s union, and the Young Farmers group warned of “an indefinite siege of the capital”.
The move followed after more than a week of nationwide protests by agricultural workers which saw motorways blocked by convoys of tractors.
The plan backs up threats to “starve” the city. Amid warnings the
capital only has three days of food. tractors gridlocked major roads bringing traffic to a grinding halt
around the city with stacks of hay bales also used to block
carriageways as part of a bitter and long running dispute over work
conditions, imposition of unworkable EU net zero targets and what is perceived as a set of policies that attack agricultural workers' livelihoods. France is a major agricultural producer in the EU and a significant exporter of food. Lorries have been overturned and loads burned on main roads leading into the city centre.
Dissatisfaction has been building for almost two years as farmers anger simmered over incomes, red tape and
environmental policies they say undermine their ability to compete with
other non - EU countries. The problems in France run deep with the current wave of protests being a continuation of the 'Gilets Jaunes' (Yellow jackets,) protest movement which disrupted the country in 2018 - 19, only being stopped by the COVID pandemic.
As the siege progressed today Benoit Durand, a grain farmer, told French broadcaster BFM TV: “We are holding a siege in Chartres, one hour away from Paris. It’s part of the blockade... the goal is to put pressure on the government.””[Blockading Paris] will happen naturally. Parisians are going to be hungry. The goal is to starve Parisians. That’s it”.
Near Beauvais, north of Paris, dozens of tractors lined the highway in one of many such protests across the country. Armoured police vehicles were deployed to Rungis on Monday after some farmers threatened to “occupy” it. Over 8,000 tons of goods pass through its market every day to feed nearly 12 million people.
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