Coordination Rurale president summoned to gendarmerie over Poitiers-Sud toll blockades, Digi Mart USA News (Vienne, France): The president of the Coordination Rurale de la Vienne is scheduled to appear at the Neuville gendarmerie brigade on Tuesday, November 10, 2026. François Turpeau will be questioned as part of a complaint filed by the motorway operator Vinci.
The procedure follows blockades at the Poitiers-Sud toll leading to the A10 motorway in December 2025. The farmers’ union was then mobilizing over contagious nodular dermatosis, a disease that was decimating cattle herds.
At the time, the Coordination Rurale obstructed access to the toll with tractors and by spreading liquid manure on the road. In a press release, the union said it would hold a support committee in front of the gendarmerie brigade at 10 a.m.
The Coordination Rurale de la Vienne is calling on the prefect and the department’s members of parliament to halt inspections on farms. The union, in a press release, denounced their resumption on Tuesday, October 27, 2026.
In a separate action, about thirty farmers from the Coordination Rurale staged a protest in Poitiers on a Tuesday evening to denounce what they said were insufficient aid payments to the profession. Papers were dumped in front of the prefecture, along with tires and liquid manure in front of the DDT, and the prefect has filed a complaint.
In the night of Wednesday, September 16 to Thursday, September 17, 2026, the Coordination Rurale de la Vienne covered radar devices with tarpaulins, another action to protest state inspections of farms.
