The Catalan Traffic Service (SCT) predicts that at 11 a.m. this Saturday traffic will reopen on the AP-7 in La Jonquera (Girona), northbound to the border with France.
The road is closed this Saturday morning at exit number 3 in Figueres Nord (Girona) due to the protest of French farmers in Le Boulou (France).
Traffic was cut off on Friday around 2:20 p.m. and this has forced transporters to spend the night waiting for the border to reopen in parking lots and service areas in La Jonquera and nearby towns.
Dozens of truck drivers are still waiting for the AP-7 to reopen as it passes through the border between Spain and France, since the section between Llers and Figueres remains closed to traffic since yesterday at noon due to the protests that French farmers are carrying out. out in that country.
The Servei Català de Trànsit (SCT) has reported again this Saturday morning that the AP-7 is closed to all types of vehicles at kilometer 21, exit 3 Figueres-Nord, heading north, so drivers must detour mandatory at that point.
However, other secondary access roads to France are not passable for heavy vehicles, so trucks are accumulating in various parking lots in the surrounding area, waiting to be able to circulate again.
The AP-9 also remains closed, in this case until El Voló.
All this when last night the National Federation of Agricultural Operators’ Unions (FNSEA) and Young Farmers (JJAA), two of the main organizations of the sector in France, urged to continue with the mobilizations throughout the country, despite the announcements from the French Government to appease the protests.
Among other measures, the Government promised a tax exemption for agricultural diesel, the commitment to negotiate in Brussels a new repeal of the obligation to leave 4% of land fallow and accelerate payments for the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the EU, of which France is the first beneficiary, with 9 billion euros per year.
For a little over a week, dozens of barricades have paralyzed traffic on hundreds of kilometers of highways and, from the first hour of this Friday, some of the main access routes to Paris were cut off.
While the Government has assured that it has no intention of sending police officers to dissipate the protests, which it considers peaceful, some episodes of violence have been recorded, such as the burning of the façade of the Executive delegation in the city of Agen (southern France). ) last Wednesday.
Yesterday, Friday, a building of the Agricultural Social Mutuality in Narbonne (south) was set on fire by demonstrators, who are protesting discontent with their living conditions in the countryside.
