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The French government Thursday ordered irate farmers blocking arterial roads to Paris to halt their latest protest over tax hikes after it caused accidents that left one person dead and six injured. Transport Minister Frederic Cuvillier called for the "immediate lifting" of the blockade which caused a crash that left a car driver dead. Two unions from the Paris region, the FDSEA and JA, had announced a "blockade" on Paris Thursday to "make the voice of the agriculture sector, which has been sacrificed, heard." President Francois Hollande's government has already been forced to suspend the planned introduction of a new environmental "ecotax" on commercial vehicles carrying cargo more than 3.5 tonnes after violent protests in Brittany, a predominantly agricultural region in northern France.
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