a “crisis of anticipation” mixed with a “moral crisis” according to Stéphane Le Foll, former Minister of Agriculture

How does Stéphane Le Foll, former Minister (PS) of Agriculture and mayor of Le Mans (Sarthe) react to the incursion by farmers into the Rungis market (Val-de-Marne)? If he says he is aware that he “There are times when things become so impossible for farmers that they show their anger”it evokes “a crisis on two levels”. On the one hand, a “anticipatory crisis” with “a scissors effect between the potential drop in prices which is beginning, and an Egalim law which suggested that we were going to systematically have increases”, then one “moral crisis”with “a lot of guilt among farmers”.

“All this creates a complex movement, difficult to deal with, especially since the government, just three, four weeks ago, (…) wanted a drop in inflation and therefore a drop in prices”concludes Stéphane Le Foll.

The question of maintaining order

79 arrests were made during the day. The former Minister of Agriculture reminds us that it is not “not there to fuel demonstrations which can degenerate”and therefore invites everyone to “remain with a sense of responsibility”. “We know that Rungis is what supplies Île-de-France (…) with food, so the consequences are extremely serious,” specifies Stéphane Le Foll. It calls to ask oneself “how far we can go, and above all where we should not go”.

The mayor of Le Mans also underlines “the extremely high complexity of the subject”. “There is not one subject on which we can act, we must act on all subjects at the same time, and above all provide answers which will take time to be effective”he analyzes.