Anne Hidalgo, ten years at the head of Paris: a decade of ups… and downs

2024-03-25 03:53:15

During the last decade, Paris has been put to the test. “Each time, Anne knew how to hold the bar,” judges Célia Blauel, former deputy mayor of Paris, faithful among the faithful. With the terrorist attacks of 2015, the fatal explosion on rue de Trévise (IXth) in January 2019 and that on rue Saint-Jacques (Ve) in June 2023. And without counting the Yellow Vest demonstrations and their share of damage in 2018, the Notre-Dame fire in April 2019, Covid and its confinements in 2020, or the heatwave episodes which now suffocate the capital every summer…