In recent weeks, a movement has gathered momentum on Twitter.

Residents of the capital, opposed to the policies of Anne Hidalgo and her team, post photos of Parisian sidewalks covered in waste.

Some also criticize eco-responsible street furniture.

The political columnist of Europe 1, Nicolas Beytout returns to this controversy which swells, one year before the presidential election. 

Cardboard boxes, pieces of plastic and soda cans ... For a little over a week, photos of Parisian streets littered with waste have been polluting the social network Twitter.

The movement is called #Saccage Paris and it wants to challenge the mayor of the capital.

These previously anecdotal images are starting to become a political problem for Anne Hidalgo, one year before the presidential election.  

“It all started with this movement, launched on Twitter via the hashtag: #SaccageParis. It identifies the visible damage in the streets of the capital. surely for some of them a political ulterior motive), today represents tens of thousands of tweets.

10% of cleaning staff immobilized because of the coronavirus

The mayor of Paris at first looked at all this with disdain, denouncing a low maneuver of the opposition.

Then she finally realized that she couldn't stay silent.

Anne Hidalgo therefore sent her right arm, Emmanuel Grégoire, the survivor of the quack on the hard confinement of three weeks to the fire.

He cleverly narrowed the debate down to just talk about the cleanliness, or rather the dirt, of the streets.

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In its defense, the Town hall invokes the lack of means (it would be necessary to increase the taxes and the fines), but also the incivility of certain inhabitants.

Finally, the coronavirus would also have immobilized 10% of the cleaning staff, in a city where officials work less than 35 hours per week.

Not very convincing, then.

Street furniture in poor condition and ugly

But above all, #Saccage Paris raises several other subjects: the lack of maintenance of barely patched up public facilities and the ugliness of urban amenities and furniture.

It is true that transforming a church square into a ZAD-style orchard with a pile of pallets is not very qualitative.

Likewise the sidewalks and urine pumps, installed here and there to make compost, are of uncertain aesthetics.

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Finally, in a city that is over a hundred years old, which the great elders have embellished and fitted out with care, seeing yellow plots or concrete blocks slashing the streets to make them more or less definitive bike tracks, is a bit strange.

Even the avenue de l'Opéra, the only one in Paris to have no trees at the express request of the architect of the Palais Garnier, is disfigured.

A controversy not only in Paris

And one year before the presidential election, this controversy is not only Parisian.

Especially since Anne Hidalgo makes no secret of her intentions.

Seeing the liabilities of poor management of incivility, insecurity and the capital's heritage increase is a problem.

And it goes beyond the only territory located inside the Paris ring road. "