Overview

• Travellers established an unauthorized caravan camp on July 8 on farmland in Hautes-Vosges that was earmarked for animal feed.
• Claiming they received no assistance from police or local authorities, farmers deployed at least six tractors to spray liquid slurry around the caravans in circular sweeps.
• Footage filmed by photographer Loic Madre and shared on YouTube and X shows residents chasing the tractors and one individual clinging to a moving vehicle to halt the spraying.
• The travellers vacated the site after several days of manure spraying, but the pasture was left badly damaged and unusable for its intended harvest.
• The incident underscores conflicts between landowners and informal travellers’ camps, highlighting questions about law enforcement’s role in rural evictions.