The smell of dirty waste has spread through the streets of the French capital of Paris and beyond as a result of its transformation into a public dumping ground following recent protests against the government’s plan to change the pension system.
This garbage crisis in France came as a result of a strike by orderlies, which will last until at least tomorrow, March 20. Waste collection and recycling centers in Paris also stopped working, as a result of which almost 9.4 thousand cities accumulated in the streets of France.
Derichebourg, responsible for garbage collection in 6 urban areas in France, refuses to reopen, worsening conditions and increasing the accumulation of landfills in Paris.
And the Associated Press reported that a cautious calm returned to Paris on Saturday after two nights of protests involving thousands of demonstrators across the French capital, where the elegant Place de la Concorde was a point of tension when angry demonstrators threw an effigy of Macron into the fire amid cheering crowds last Friday night. As police dispersed the crowd with tear gas and water cannons, hundreds were arrested.
The protests stem from an attempt by demonstrators to pressure parliamentarians to overthrow the government of French President Emmanuel Macron and rescind a bill to raise the new retirement age, which is not popular among the French masses and which Macron is trying to introduce without a vote in the National Assembly.
Garbage piled up on Saturday in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, a few meters from the bakery, smells bad due to the mild weather and sunlight, and some Parisians buying baguettes over the weekend blamed the Macron administration.
For her part, the head of the district, Emmanuelle Pierre-Marie, expressed concern about the consequences of the accumulation of garbage, which has become a symbol of the strike against pension reform.
She added: “We are very attentive to the situation, as soon as garbage trucks are available, we will prioritize the most vulnerable places, such as vegetable and food markets.”
With these scenes, Paris returns to the Middle Ages, which was not one of the most colorful periods that France went through, and the slums were infested with waste and bad smells due to the lack of services sent to these areas, which caused the spread of epidemics and diseases, and it seems that she will face the same problems if the Macron government continues to ignore the demands of the protesters.
Source: AFP+ News
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