France's President Francois Hollande attends a news conference at the Elysee Palace in Paris September 19, 2014. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes
PARIS (Reuters) - French Prime Minister Manuel Valls called for farmers who set fire to public buildings in the Breton town of Morlaix last night to be prosecuted after their protests over red tape and a drop in vegetable prices escalated.
The protestors, numbering around 100, arrived on tractors, ransacked and set fire to the MSA agricultural mutual insurance building before going on to burn the local tax office, Jean-Luc Videlaine, prefect of the Finistere region of Brittany, told Reuters.
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