French farmers have targeted Aldi and Lidl in protest of their “unfairly” low prices as President Emmanuel Macron flew to Sweden despite the ongoing tractor “siege” of Paris.
Farmers belonging to the Confédération paysanne union were blocking the entrance to an Aldi distribution hub in Cavaillon in the Vaucluse, south-eastern France, on Tuesday morning, hours after colleagues launched similar action against a Lidl logistics hub in Beaucaire in the Gard.
“We want to blockade the logistics platforms to demand a better sharing of added value, as supermarkets made big profits in the last half of the year and we never saw any of it,” an unnamed spokesman for the movement told BFM TV.
“We’re asking them to increase our prices without passing them on to the consumer, to reduce their margins in fact.
“We will stay as long as necessary”, he added.
Last night, around 20 farmers dumped rubbish in front of the Lidl logistics in Beaucaire and set it on fire, causing the front gate to collapse.
On Tuesday morning, some 200 farmers and 50 tractors were blocking access to the logistics hub of French supermarket giant Leclerc in the western French Loire-Atlantique département.
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