Cagliari, the protest of farmers and shepherds at the port continues: "We will be here for five days"

There are around three hundred farmers and shepherds who have been slowing down traffic entering and exiting the Customs pier of the port of Cagliari since this morning. They arrived mostly from Medio Campidano, Sulcis and the Cagliari hinterland to protest against the community policies adopted and planned for the agricultural sector. Some of which are being discussed these days in Brussels. Most arrived by car, especially those who came from the hinterland, while someone else brought the tractor that they use every day in the fields. There are about thirty of them with the flags of the Four Moors blocking the road to the pier, forcing the drivers to make a few more maneuvers to access the ships. The entrance for departing trucks is more problematic, queuing up waiting to be able to enter the port with a column of vehicles extending up to the Sa Scafa bridge, at the entrance to the city.

One of these was also used as a hearse carrying a coffin - a real one - accompanied by the obituary "The agricultural sector is dead" . There are men and women, but also entire families, young people who "fear having to abandon the land and the businesses set up by their grandparents and fathers". Among these were also several students from the “Duca degli Abruzzi” institute in Elmas, who deserted lessons to «defend our future and our work», says Luca Pinna from Samassi. During the morning there were some moments of tension with some hauliers who, having arrived from the Peninsula, found their road blocked. Someone - like Elia Pruner from Sestu -, however, got out of the truck and showed his solidarity with the demonstrators: "we are all in the same boat", said the man.

Now the situation seems calmer, but shepherds and farmers intend to stay . The revolt that began in France and Germany has also arrived in Italy a few days ago, but is spreading throughout Europe. "We will protest to the bitter end, we will stay here for at least five days until we have some positive signals and a response" , announces Roberto Congia, representative of the "Agricultural redemption" committee.