5,600 tonnes of uncollected waste littered the sidewalks of Paris on Monday March 13. For more than a week, mobilized against the pension reform, some of the Parisian cleaning agents have been on strike and the three incinerators, receptacles for the capital’s garbage, have been shut down. A ready-made angle of attack for the various oppositions to the mayor of Paris: it is Anne Hidalgo, “solidarity with the social movement”, the cause of everything.
It was she who plunged the capital into the throes of a giant open-air trash can that is always full. It is even a surge. Sylvain Maillard, deputy and president of the Renaissance federation in Paris tance, on Twitter, the town hall which “ must stop supporting the garbage collection strike. The safety of the city comes before its small political calculations”. The elected Macronist advocates the requisition of dumpster garages and incineration sites, blocked.
Rachida Dati, leader of the Parisian Republicans (LR), asks, she, « the establishment of a minimum service for garbage collection (…) A necessity that I keep asking for to avoid any health and safety risks during the strike period. and remember that “as mayor of Paris, from the start of my mandate in 2026, I will put it in place as part of a total reorganization of Parisian cleaning services”.
“Demagogic outbidding”
Even the government is getting involved. Clément Beaune, Minister of Transport and possible candidate for mayor of Paris in 2026, is all in virulence: “Stink and rot. No emergency measure, even partial, decided by the City of Paris. Yet another example of inaction and contempt for Parisians. A tweet labeled as “ disgusting, of demagogic one-upmanship”, by Emmanuel Gregoire.
The first deputy to the City of Paris provoked a press conference on Monday afternoon to contradict ” this crude instrumentalization of the government. This is a situation faced by Metz, Saint-Brieuc, Le Havre… Clément Beaune asks Edouard Philippe [maire du Havre] to make requisitions? It’s petty petty politics, public opinion is not fooled. It is a subject of national conflict which is the responsibility of the government. It would be more logical for him to withdraw his project.
In the meantime, should we, eternal debate, requisition garbage collectors and/or incineration sites? ” It is an initiative and a competence that fall solely under the State! », retorts Emmanuel Grégoire, who says to himself ” surprised by so many approximations on the part of the majority”. Establish a minimum service? “It is legally prohibited. The right to strike is a constitutional principle that we cannot and do not want to circumvent. We do what we can to limit the breakage “specifies the first assistant.
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