“My thoughts go out to the victims and their loved ones who are mourning them,” he said, calling Tuesday’s collision “a drama that has devastated us all”.Īttal met farming unions on Monday night but did not assuage their anger. Macron said he had asked his government “to offer concrete solutions” to the farmers’ problems. The farming protests – calling on the government to cut regulations and taxes and ensure better prices for produce – have presented Emmanuel Macron’s newly appointed prime minister, Gabriel Attal, with his first major headache, as convoys of tractors continued to block key roads across France on Tuesday and farmers held demonstrations in towns.Īttal wrote on social media that “the nation is devastated” by the farmer’s death at the roadblock. In the dark, the car ran into a wall of straw bales at the roadblock, hit the three people and only came to a halt when it crashed into a tractor’s trailer, Mouysset said. Olivier Mouysset, a local prosecutor, said early results of the investigation suggested the car, carrying a couple and a friend, had not rammed the barrier intentionally. Her daughter was taken to hospital but later died.

The woman who was killed was a member of the powerful FNSEA farmers union, which has been leading nationwide protests. The three people in the car, all Armenian nationals, were being questioned on suspicion of involuntary manslaughter. The woman’s husband was seriously injured.

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