LIVE: French farmers“besiege“ Paris on third day of protest

The protests began on January 18 among dairy farmers in the southwest demanding compensation for cattle killed by epizootic hemorrhagic disease, but they have spread across the country in a general expression of rural anger with French and EU technocrats. Demonstrators, who have blocked hundreds of roads, attacked government officers and dug up supermarket car parks, complain about falling revenue, rising costs, spiralling bureaucracy, mounting environmental demands and unfair competition from within the EU. Read the best of our journalism: Subscribe to The Times and The Sunday Times YouTube channel: Find us on Facebook: Find us on Twitter: Find us on Instagram: #france paris #protest