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Jerome Bayle: The driving force behind farmers’ protest in France
FirstpostFarmers in France have been protesting for days. Among the protesters is Jerome Bayle, a French farmer who began the roadblock protests following his father’s suicide. ‘Found my father with a bullet in his head because of this profession’ Inspired to act following the suicide of his father amid the tough conditions of the French farming industry, Jerome Bayle has personified the French farmers campaign to protest pay, regulation and taxes by blocking roads nationwide. But “the name of the game isn’t getting my name in lights, the name of the game is making sure we can live from our profession,” said the 42-year-old cattle farmer from southwest France. ‘Uncompromising’ Bayle’s friend Joel Tournier, a livestock and cereals farmer who joined the Carbonne roadblock, said that after his father’s death, “he promised himself he would turn the business into a nice farm”.
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