Farmers drive hundreds of tractors to Paris to protest against pesticide ban

Tractors park in front of the Grand Palais museum, left, in Paris on Wednesday (Christophe Ena/AP)

Hundreds of farmers have driven their tractors through Paris to amplify their demand to be allowed to use banned pesticides on sugar beets and other crops to ensure “food sovereignty” for France.

Entering the French capital through a southern gateway, the farmers’ convoy rolled to the gold-domed Invalides monument, site of Napoleon’s tomb.