Peasants' text

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A small town in the canton of Vaud....in this one as in dozens of others in recent days across French-speaking Switzerland .....a strange activity begins at nightfall.....small commandos armed with escabots and screwdrivers

The peasant commando prefers to remain anonymous....they don't break anything but are afraid of having problems with the authorities....

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The initiator of the movement in Switzerland is him....Arnaud Rochat.....he is only 23 years old... And 27In the space of a few days, he went from an anonymous agricultural employee to a peasant leader....he was the one who launched the Swiss agricultural revolt group on Facebook and set an example

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Arnaud Rochat, founder of the "Swiss Agricultural Revolt" group

Arnaud Rochat is employed here... On this farm in Champagne in the canton of Vaud which supplies milk for the production of Gruyère........... 55 cows.....and this little calf born the day before..... Enough to keep the employee busy....

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Arnaud Rochat knows that he is likely to win even less the day he is self-employed. ....due to ever-increasing pressure on the price of milk.

Seeing the peasant movement in the rest of Europe, he thought that something had to be done to keep envy alive in his generation

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The example of neighbouring countries is enough to give it wings......

In France, the government has multiplied concessions in the face of peasant protests....

At the beginning of the week, a hundred blockade points dotted the country.....including this one at the last toll before Geneva....the farmers of Haute Savoie burst in at dawn and are organizing themselves to hold out....

Nicolas Tissot is one of the leaders of the blockade. In the past, he worked on construction sites in Switzerland, but today he earns 3 times less on his farm. A choice guided by passion, but a difficult one to make

5'02 Nicolas Tissot, dairy farmer

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After less than an hour of filtering barriers, farmers are already causing a 7-kilometre traffic jam for those who come to work in Switzerland

Yannis Motte, 20, is trying to rally motorists to their cause.....

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Like Arnaud Rochat from Vaud, Yannis Motte is a farm worker who dreams of opening his own farm with cows.

But his dream is to sell milk, not to live on bonuses or subsidies

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6'08 Yannis Motte, farm worker

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We're 10 tractors, we're going to go down auchan epagny

The punch operation will target one of their sworn enemies...... Large-scale distribution

Yannis embarks on the procession towards Annecy....towards one of the shopping areas... the busiest in the region ....

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The arrival is rather noticeable....the gendarmes are on site as well as the manager of the store who knows that other raids of this type have degenerated in recent days

Farmers are determined to take out of the store all unprocessed products that do not come from France or the European Union

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Laurent Dierstein, Director of the hypermarket

The demonstrators ended up filling 2 shopping carts with non-European products..... that the store will agree to offer to the Resto du Cœur.....

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9’05 Gollion (VD)

In the Vaud countryside, the concern is the same... How can we force supermarkets to favour local products rather than imported products?

Emilie and David Baudet are siblings..... ....they bet on buffaloes to stand out by producing milk for the mozzarella.....  But it's a daily struggle to sell their cheese.....

Some supermarkets do offer their mozzarella on the shelves, but it's not really conclusive

9'53 Émilie Baudet, farmer

In the absence of sales, the stocks of mozzarella accumulate....and as long as the cheese is not sold in the store, the milk is not paid to them.....

Emiie and David delivered 17,000 litres in September without receiving anything in return... And even when they are paid, it's still fair

 10'38 David Baudet, farmer

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In addition, there are standards, environmental constraints, etc. Emilie and David Viennet to learn that from now on part of their land will be inaccessible to their buffaloes..... in the name of protecting biotopes

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Emilie and David are not the only ones expressing their anger in French-speaking Switzerland

12'07 Les Ponts-de-Martel (NE)

This Tuesday evening, for the 1st time, peasants from the movement born on Facebook meet physically....silhouettes that appear in front of this cattle market on the Martel bridges... They don't know each other, but they all seem to have some distress in common

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About sixty farmers responded to the call for a meeting that was neither trade union nor political.....

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Despite the presence of our camera, the participants do not deflate and empty their bags, one after the other

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The meeting will last nearly 3 hours....the time to listen to each other and imagine how to act.

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13'41 Bernex (GE), here

4 days later, the movement took to the streets......

We are in the Cato of Geneva and on this Saturday morning....dozens of tractors converge on the city center....., Arnaud Rochat from Vaud is there....only 10 days after creating this group on facebook he sees it materialize into a demonstration. 

The peasants met on the plain of Plainpalais, one of the rallying points of the Genevans at the weekend.... The goal is not to block the city but to convince its inhabitants

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Arnaud Rochat, founder of the "Swiss Agricultural Revolt" group

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They are determined to come back, to multiply their demonstrations so that their concern leads to change