With announced filter blockages in Antwerp, Ghent and Zeebrugge, the police had warned of major traffic disruptions. After the escalation of the farmers’ protest in Brussels three weeks ago, the police feared hotheads and chaos. But at the roundabout in Wommelgem we found something completely different: a dying farmer giving his last strength and a 19-year-old who refuses to give up her dream. “As small farmers, we are being competed to death by industrial giants.”
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Herman (60) at farmers’ protest while cancer has returned: “I am on palliative care, but still I am here”
Bytaketonews
Jan 8, 2026