The 8th day of truckers’ and farmers’ protests: Blockade in Siret Customs
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The transporters and protesting farmers are still blocking a lane of the national road in Afumati and the direction of exit from the country at Siret Customs on the border with Ukraine, the InfoTraffic Center reported on Wednesday morning.
According to InfoTrafic, road traffic is restricted in 2 counties: Ilfov County: DN 2 – Afumați, where lane 1 of the direction of travel towards the capital is occupied by parked vehicles, traffic taking place on lane no. 2; Suceava County: DN 2 – Vama Siret, where the way out of the country is occupied by the protestors’ vehicles, with traffic moving on a single line, alternatively for both directions.
Dozens of drivers who went to protest in Constanța Port were left without driving licenses. They say that gendarmes had set them up.
People said, on social networks, that they were directed by the gendarmes to go in the opposite direction, on the emergency lane of the A4 highway, later being stopped by the police and penalized.
Farmers and transporters with dozens of trucks and cars blocked, on Monday evening, some of the entrance gates to the Port of Constanţa Sud – Agigea, calling on social media for their number to increase. Previously, large protests took place in Constanța on Saturday and Sunday evenings, paralyzing road traffic on the city’s ring road, respectively the boulevard leading out of the city to the south of the coast.
Farmers and transporters continued their protests in several areas of Romania on Tuesday, despite the promises made by Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu and Agriculture Minister Florin Barbu. The Minister of Agriculture, Florin Barbu (PSD), lashed out on Tuesday and called the farmers who are still protesting in Afumati “instigators and protesters”.
“Transmit them directly from the Ministry of Agriculture to those who are in Afumati that the minister no longer considers them farmers, but considers them protesters”, Barbu told a press conference when asked if, after reaching an agreement with farmers’ associations, he was willing to offer something more to those who still have claims.
Some farmers came up with new demands on Tuesday – the increase of the subsidy from 100 euros per hectare to 250 euros per hectare for crops affected by the drought and the total elimination of the excise tax to diesel.
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