Overview
- Coordination Rurale 64 says it will lift the A64 barricades at Pau and Urt at midday Friday after talks with Prefect Jean-Marie Girier.
- Other roadblocks continue at Carbonne on the A64, on the A63 near Cestas, on the A65 at Thèze, and on the A75 in Lozère and Aveyron.
- The Pyrénées-Atlantiques prefecture estimates direct costs above €1 million, covering cleanup, road repairs, lost concession revenue, and damaged radars.
- The Interior Ministry counted about 15 actions involving roughly 140 people the previous evening, with Christmas masses and communal meals reported at several sites.
- The protests target the state’s DNC strategy of whole-herd culling, vaccination, and movement restrictions, and unions plan further discussions in January.