Paris: surroundings of the Eiffel Tower, parking of two-wheelers … controversial files accumulate for Hidalgo

Ecologists clinging to trees to prevent them from being cut down… In the memory of a City Hall official, we had not seen this in Paris since the Chirac years and the construction of the Charles-de-Gaulle bridge (12th-13th centuries). And yet, this Monday morning, Thomas Brail, founder of the National Tree Monitoring Group (GNSA) France, settled in the branches of the bicentennial plane tree on the site of the Eiffel Tower (VIIe) to ask the City of Paris to withdraw its planned infrastructure construction project around the monument and near remarkable trees. An action relayed on social networks by the militant journalist Hugo Clément. Anne Hidalgo’s first deputy, Emmanuel Grégoire, and the deputy in charge of green spaces, Christophe Najdovski, came to exchange a few words with the protester.