Farmers will mark the New Year beside their tractors, continuing their mobilizations and stressing that they will not block side roads.
Traffic police, however, are diverting vehicles at points such as the Martino junction, eight kilometers before the Kastro, Boeotia roadblock, stating that this is necessary “to prevent serious traffic accidents.”
Specifically, the Hellenic Police stress that “this particular measure may create among passing drivers the mistaken impression that the road is fully closed. In reality, however, it aims to prevent extremely dangerous situations, as allowing vehicles to pass through the roadblock point would require constant maneuvers to avoid agricultural machinery, protesting pedestrians and makeshift structures located on the roadway.”
The farmers’ roadblocks began on November 30 on sections of the Athens–Thessaloniki national highway and escalated in early December.
Meanwhile, farmers are preparing for the nationwide meeting in Malgara on Sunday, January 4, without “the 18” who sided in favor of dialogue with the government.
There, they are expected to take critical decisions about the future of the roadblocks, which have been ongoing since November 30 and escalated in early December.
In its announcement calling for the meeting, the Roadblock Committee states, among other things, that “with the majority of the Greek people by our side, we have repelled every attempt by the government to slander and undermine our just struggle. Neither repression, nor social division tactics, nor calls for sham dialogue, nor mudslinging, slander and pressure, nor attempts to break our unity with various ‘willing’ individuals have been able to bend us.”
Source: Kathimerini
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