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Farmers Keep Southwest France Road Blockades on Christmas Day Over Cattle Disease Policy

The government maintains a three‑pillar DNC response that includes whole‑herd culls, a strategy farm unions are openly challenging.

Overview

  • Multiple stretches of the A64, A63, A65, and A75, as well as sections of the RN88, remained closed or heavily disrupted, according to the gendarmerie and traffic operators.
  • Protest camps held Christmas Eve gatherings, with at least 300 people at the A64 Carbonne site and about 80–90 at Cestas on the A63, including a mass and communal meals.
  • The Interior Ministry counted 15 protest actions involving roughly 140 people as of Wednesday night.
  • Authorities reported fresh disease-control operations, including the cull of 72 cows in Haute‑Garonne, bringing the national tally to 115 DNC outbreaks since June.
  • A reported transfer of 208 culled carcasses from an Ariège farm to an incineration site in Normandy drew criticism and fed local tensions.