Every day, the network of farmers' blockades across Greece grows wider. Yesterday, farmers from Trikala set up a blockade on the E65 motorway at the Longos toll station — the second blockade on the E65, following the one in Karditsa. Together with the blockade in Larissa, more than 4,000 tractors are now on the roads in Thessaly.
The PPC employee who stopped the large vehicle carrying 25 workers bound for the PPC Steam Power Plant in Agios Dimitrios spoke about the moments that unfolded when he had to grab the steering wheel of the bus in Ptolemaida when it started hitting the barriers after the driver suffered a seizure.
The police buses had closed the National Road in both directions, and behind them were the riot police squads. The convoy with the tractors, as soon as it reached the point and saw the barrier, stopped momentarily.