Confusion in the ruler: GNR prevents passage, stopped vans, protesters go on foot block bridge

Viticultures are manifest this morning, in the weight of the ruler, with tractors and vans, to alert to the crisis that affects the demarcated region of the Douro.

“There is no one to buy the grapes. We have nothing, we are without any support and You can’t live”Said Paulo Guedes to Lusa.

Os protesters wanted to make a slow march through the city, but the GNR blocked the passage and therefore, at 6:30 am, the join different inputs of the city.

“They are not letting us pass”pointed out Paulo Guedes, next to the roundabout of the four ways in Godim, weight of the ruler, who stressed that the winemakers want to draw attention to their problems.

At the same time, the circulation At Camilo de Araújo Correia Street was already cut.

The producer spoke in Godim and explained that the producers arrived this morning in the Régua, in the Vila Real district, from various locations of Douro, since Moura Morte, Oliveira, Sedelles, Vila Marim.

Across the city, other farmers came from other municipalities as St. John of Pesqueira.

“No to the start of the vineyard” or “don’t let the Douro go to Monte” are some of the messages they wrote in tarjas that take in the vans or tractors.

Silvia Mimoso is from Godim and has come to speak because they are cutting in the benefit, the amount of must that each producer can allocate to the production of port wine.

“We want to manifest ourselves so as not to make the cuts. We have no way to support the vineyards”This farmer pointed out.

Followed

More than an hour later, Viticultors left vans and tractors in one of the main entrances of the rulerand at 7:50 am went on foot to block the bridge Bus that gives access to the city to draw attention to the Douro crisis.

At the site, the Lusa agency noted that the vehicles were left by the Avenida Diocese of Vila Real that descends to the roundabout known as the Corgo Warehouses and the protesters joined on the bridge board to the sound of the song “Grandola Vila Morena” by Zeca Afonso and the national anthem.

The goal was to make a idle through the city of Vila Real district, but as GNR did not let them in, they started by leaving some tractors and vans in Godim, next to the roundabout of the four paths, from where a group went on foot to join other producers who were at the entrance on the side of the ruler.