Farmers Rioting in Dijon
Saturday October 17th 2009, 11:42 am
Filed under: Cote d'Or, news, people, politics, travel and places

Yesterday wasn’t the best time to go to Dijon, let alone any city in France because of the farmer protests. We usually know about these things in advance, but silly us, we didn’t watch the news on Thursday (or lately for that matter), like we usually do! Needless to say, when we arrived in Dijon, the traffic was très pertubé, and that wasn’t the only thing perturbed. The farmers were all over the city setting fires in the roads, throwing around trash, hay and animal poo (It smelled!), lighting huge bomb firecrackers, and making a huge mess causing hours of traffic delays. Once we got parked, which took forever, I took these photos. I’m lucky I had my old little camera in my purse.
farmers riot france dijon
farmers riot france dijon
farmers riot france dijon
And we noticed that the police were hiding far away from the rowdy agriculteurs.
farmers riot france dijon
farmers riot france dijon
Here’s a :30 video I took:

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Hilarious. Even the police are cowards in France.

Comment by Guido 10.17.09 @ 1:43 pm

First of all, Guido is a moron. I’m surprised you didn’t delete his ridiculous comment.
I don’t think a controlled fire can be called a “riot”. By the way, there was a similar grève on the Champs-Élysée.

Comment by starman1695 10.18.09 @ 10:36 am

eew..flinging poo…

Comment by kat 10.18.09 @ 1:44 pm



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