So just for context of what this is all about, the netherlands passed a legistlative action to require each of its regions to set up a region specific strategy for reducing nitrogen emissions. Each province has a different nitrogen reduction goal set by the national government based on their level of contribution to nitrogen pollution.
Farmers in the netherlands responded to this by blocking roads with tractors and fishermen blocked ports with their ships.
The dutch minister of justice had this to say about the situation
“Several highways are currently blocked by farmers. You don’t make your point by endangering road users. This can have serious consequences. Then the police have no choice but to intervene where possible, if necessary afterwards. Don’t let it get that far.”
-Justice Minister Dilan Yesilgöz-Zegerius
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Dutch police forces fired shots at a tractor approaching a police block, after several warning addresses and several warning shots. So to call the wording shots were fired "because the farmers wanted to carry on being farmers" is indeed way worse than an oversimplification. I'm sure people who downvoted me did this, because I played that down and didn't call it what it is: a heinous, awful, nauseating lie.
Farmers in the netherlands responded to this by blocking roads with tractors and fishermen blocked ports with their ships.
The dutch minister of justice had this to say about the situation
“Several highways are currently blocked by farmers. You don’t make your point by endangering road users. This can have serious consequences. Then the police have no choice but to intervene where possible, if necessary afterwards. Don’t let it get that far.”
-Justice Minister Dilan Yesilgöz-Zegerius