Farmers Defense Force wants to prevent uncoordinated action again in the coming week. If it is coordinated, the police will not intervene. Because there will be no national tractor demonstration ban.
The chairman of the 25 Security Regions, Mayor Bruls van Nijmegen, announced this this morning.
Roadblocks again
"If you want to campaign, just report it," says campaign leader Sieta van Keimpema. "Last week there were wild actions, which FDF has no control over either. The police cannot work with that and then the mayor of a security region can locally impose a ban on demonstrations, with all the consequences that entails."
She is not surprised that the joint security regions will not issue a national tractor demonstration ban if FDF starts blocking roads again. They plan to do so next week, if agriculture minister Carola Schouten continues her own animal feed plan to reduce the amount of crude protein in the animal feed ration.
According to van Keimpema, citizens do not feel intimidated by blockades. She bases this on a survey in De Telegraaf. "Citizens find it annoying that they suddenly stop in traffic, without being able to respond to it in advance." The tractor has become a symbol of the farmers' protest, notes van Keimpema.
gun incident
She denies that the police officer who last week in Bleiswijk (South Holland) kept cattle farmer Thijs Wieggers from Marienvelde in Gelderland at gunpoint, was deliberately intimidated with the tractor. "The media are twisting the true story. Wieggers has spoken with the officer but to no avail. He then got back into the tractor and started driving. Then the officer drew his gun."
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