Vegetables were strewn across highways, a local prefecture building was sprayed with manure, and tractors blocked traffic outside major French cities on Thursday as farmers took to the barricades literal ones made of bales of hay in protest at cheap imports, rising costs and red tape.
The farmer protests, now in the second week after breaking out in the southwest of the country in response to a fuel tax rise, are reminiscent of those which have taken place in Germany and much of western Europe recently and represent a first major challenge for France's new prime minister, Gabriel Attal.
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