![]() ![]() Police Chief Laurent Nunez then ordered garages unblocked and ordered 674 sanitation personnel and 206 garbage trucks back to work to provide a minimal service, police tweeted Tuesday.įILE - A woman walks past uncollected garbage in Paris, March 20, 2023, during an ongoing strike by sanitation workers. ![]() City Hall refused orders to get the trucks out, saying it’s not their job. The Socialist mayor of Paris, who supports the strikers, found herself in a bind. Posters showing a digitally altered images of Macron atop a garbage heap - or collecting garbage himself - have made the rounds on social networks. And neither unions organizing protests nor some citizens are prepared to back down. The bill is now considered adopted.īut garbage got wrapped up in the politics. On Monday, the government won two no-confidence motions put forth by angry lawmakers. Macron rammed the showcase legislation of his second term through Parliament last week - without a vote, thanks to a special constitutional article. He is among the majority of French who, polls show, oppose President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to raise the retirement age by two years, from 62 to 64 for most and from 57 to 59 for garbage collectors. “They’re smelling it all day long,” he said, though “it” wasn’t the word he used. “I’m fortunate to live here, but I’m 200% behind these guys,” Salazar said. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard)īut like many nonchalant and strike-hardened Parisians, Salazar doesn’t mind. France's government is fighting for its survival Monday against no-confidence motions filed by lawmakers who are furious that President Emmanuel Macron used special constitutional powers to force through an unpopular bill raising the retirement age from 62 to 64 without giving them a vote. Uncollected garbage is piled up on a street in Paris, Monday, March 20, 2023. A pile of garbage sits at the corner of his building overlooking the Luxembourg Gardens. “I prefer Chanel to the stink,” joked Vincent Salazar, a 62-year-old artistic consultant who lives in a tony Left Bank neighborhood. ![]() Heaps, mounds and piles of it are growing daily - and in some places standing higher than a human being.Ī strike by Paris garbage collectors, which begins its 16th day on Tuesday, is taking a toll on the renowned aesthetics of the French capital, a veritable blight on the City of Light. ![]()
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