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Jul 27, 2015

TRUCKS HIJACKEDS and DESTROYED * Europe: By French farmers

* France - Highland trucks hijacked and destroyed by farmers in
-- A mob of 200 angry French farmers hijacked a convoy of seven lorries carrying fish from the Highlands to the continent... Drivers were threatened, their trucks smashed open and cargoes worth £200,000 were destroyed in the terrifying incident... Their three-hour ordeal started when they were herded into a roadblock trap in Brittany in the north-west of France... Farm vehicles, bales of hay and tyres had been to create a makeshift barrier on the main route used by Lochinver-based Hunter Transport to ferry fish from Sutherland to Lorient... 
(Photo: Cargoes worth £200,000 were destroyed)  --  Lorient, France - The Press and Journal by Iain Ramage - 24 July 2015 


 * France - Farmers attack trucks, IRU calls for action

-- Truck drivers have for the last two days been subjected to intimidation and seen their cargos destroyed during yet another strike in France, this time by farmers. The protests have also resulted in driving bans and significant delays. Yet again French police officers are standing by while these unacceptable attacks take place. France must act to guarantee freedom of movement in its territory. Its police must uphold the law... Marc Billiet, head of Goods Transport for the EU said, “It is absolutely unacceptable that the haulage industry is on the receiving end of total French incompetence or unwillingness to uphold the rule of law, again. We cannot have drivers being threatened, tyres being slashed and loads being destroyed” ... 
 Brussels, Belgium - IRU - July 23, 2015

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