French farmers rolled into Paris on tractors on Thursday, blocking the areas around the city's top landmarks in a show of anger against the European Union's trade deal with the South American bloc Mercosur, which they fear will create unfair competition.
Dozens of tractors arrived before dawn and drove through Paris, with some pausing at the Eiffel Tower and others at the Arc de Triomphe, in a protest organized by the Rural Confederation union.
"We are between resentment and despair. We have a feeling of abandonment, with Mercosur being an example," Stephane Pelletier, a senior member of the Coordination Rurale union, told Reuters beneath the Eiffel Tower.
"We said we'd come up to Paris β here we are,"
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