Overview
- Gendarmes deployed before dawn with riot units and armored vehicles to secure the Carbonne stretch of the A64, keeping media at a distance as the operation began.
- Organizers said they would clear the encampment between today and tomorrow after negotiations with the Haute-Garonne prefect, and tractors started leaving at midday.
- Brief scuffles broke out as protesters tried to return to the camp to clean, and leaders called for a dignified exit while pledging to remobilize regionally.
- Prefect Pierre-André Durand called the prolonged occupation untenable and said the site was well kept with no observed damage.
- The previous night, firefighters extinguished a blaze that burned about 50 straw bales and left diesel traces on the roadway, with no injuries reported as farmers rejected any suggestion they damaged infrastructure.