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There are meeting points for the announced demonstration in all Flemish provinces. From six o’clock in the morning, activists will drive tractors from there via secondary roads to Brussels, where they are expected from 10 o’clock. The farmers and horticulturists will leave the capital in the afternoon via the same paved roads.
In a response to our editors, some participating organizations have already announced that the nuisance will be great. Yet they also want to keep it peaceful. “We are angry, but that does not give anyone the excuse to destroy something,” says Bram Van Hecke of Groene Kring, the umbrella organization for young farmers.
The roads around Brussels that the activists will use are the N1, the N2, the N8 and the N9. Attached below are detailed maps with the various departure points. The tractor column will drive through Lier, Mol, Diest, Hasselt, Sint-Truiden, Leuven, Mechelen, Torhout, Izegem, Tielt, Deinze, Ghent, Oudenaarde, Dendermonde, Aalst and Ninove, among others.
ROUTE EAST OF THE TRACTOR ACTION
Route 1: Riemst – Tienen – Brussels.
Route 2: Diepenbeek – Hasselt – Diest – Leuven.
Route 3: Bree – Oudsbergen – Diest – Leuven.
Route 4: Pelt – Geel – Westerlo – Heist o/d Berg – Mechelen.
Route 5: Turnhout – Herentals – Nijlen – Lier – Mechelen.
Route 6a/6b: Brecht/Hoogstraten – Lier – Mechelen – Brussels.
ROUTE WEST OF THE TRACTOR ACTION
Route 7a-7b: Hamme/Lokeren- Dendermonde- Asse.
Route 8: Eeklo – Ghent – Aalst.
Route 9: Gistel – Torhout – Pittem – Tielt – Deinze – Nazareth – Oudenaarde.
Route 10: Ypres – Roeselare – Izegem – Deerlijk – Oudenaarde.
The federal police advises drivers of vehicles to avoid the regional roads and the wider area around them and to use alternative means of transport, such as the bicycle or the train. Those who can, work best at home today on the advice of the federal police.
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