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The city’s refuse collectors are on strike, so there’s rubbish everywhere: about 6,000 tonnes of the stuff and rising.
Like most of the country, refuse collectors in Paris and other cities have downed tools to protest at Emmanuel Macron’s hugely controversial pension reform, which would raise retirement ages. In their case, from 57 to 59.
The Parisian pest controller Alexandre Woog says he is receiving 10 times as many calls as usual. “People are worried,” he declared on French television.
Anne Hidalgo, the Socialist mayor of Paris, has declared her “total, complete solidarity” with the strikers and says she can’t requisition workers to deal with the rubbish backlog.
Liberté, égalité, rat-ernité.