The week in the Region begins as it ended: with several roads cut off. Specifically, this Monday several towns in the Community, such as Las Torres de Cotillas, Torre Pacheco or Cartagena, have dawned with cuts in their roads.
In the first case, the access to the industrial area of Las Torres de Cotillas, where the logistics centre of Consum is located, has been blocked by a picket of farmers. Around 30 people gathered at the aforementioned location “calling for more people and tractors to come to the site”, according to the Government Delegation. Around eight o’clock in the morning the road was opened.
As for Torre Pacheco, there have also been protests by tractors at the El Jimenado roundabout. This gives access to the A-30 motorway, 172, at the height of the Garcerán restaurant, in the direction of Murcia. Delegación reported that there were about a dozen tractors.
At the same time, there was also a slow march, this time of six tractors, on the RM-F36, in the vicinity of the A-30, which was not affected. All of them have already been broken up by the Guardia Civil, according to the same source.
At the moment, these protests are creating traffic jams on the roads coming from Torre Pacheco and Alhama de Murcia and on the A-30 itself.
Another of the points that have been cut off is at Escombreras. However, the Guardia Civil has already cleared the area. The Benemérita traffic police had received almost 200 calls from citizens affected by the roadblocks by 8.30am.
Shortly after the first pickets, farmers also mobilised to block access to the Cabezo Beaza industrial estate in Cartagena, affecting access to the A-30 at km 191. However, the roads were cleared by quarter past eight.
Transport joins the strike in the countryside
The National Platform for the Defence of Transport, a minority association that was responsible for paralysing road distribution in March 2022, called an indefinite national strike this Saturday in support of the mobilisations that members of the 6-F Platform, organised on social networks, have been supporting for a week in a rally in the vicinity of the Wanda Metropolitano stadium in which some 200 people took part.