Comité Régional d'Action Viticole

[4] It has claimed responsibility for numerous attacks, including bombing government buildings, hijacking tankers, and destroying large quantities of non-French wine.

This process, which has involved considerable European Union subsidies, has had negative effects on smaller producers and has met with various protests, of which CRAV is the most violent.

CRAV's publicised demands have regularly included elements which are more-or-less impossible for French politicians to implement under European Union rules, since they would mean interfering with the single market and introducing national subsidies on top of the Common Agricultural Policy.

"Each bottle of American and Australian wine that lands in Europe is a bomb targeted at the heart of our rich European culture," argues grower Aime Guibert.

[8] On 17 May 2007, the group released a video in which it was stated that "blood would flow" if Nicolas Sarkozy failed to act to raise the price of wine.