The farmers began cutting off traffic at 2:00 pm (1300 GMT)
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Protesting French farmers began blocking several motorways around Paris on Monday to press their demands for better working conditions, higher pay and less red tape, AFP reporters said.
In an intensifying standoff with the French government, the farmers began cutting off traffic at 2:00 pm (1300 GMT), with the target of establishing eight chokepoints along the major arteries to Paris in the course of the afternoon.
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