Angry French winemakers attack Spanish lorries, block depot
Tension is rising in southern France after winemakers staged a day of action, emptying at least one tanker of Spanish wine and blocking a depot used by the wine subsidiary of Carrefour supermarket.
Sixty protesters block supermarket-owned depot near NîmesThey then attacked a tanker suspected of carrying Spanish wineProtesters claiming allegiance to militant group CRAV – or CAV – dump Spanish wine in shopping centre car park
Several protests took place in France’s Languedoc-Roussillon region on Tuesday (17 January) against cheap Spanish wine imports.
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