Illustration of a Paris cleanliness container.

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Soon a cleaner capital?

After the success of the hashtag #saccageParis and the controversy over the cleanliness of Paris, Anne Hidalgo promised on RTL, this Thursday, to decentralize certain powers to the mayors of the arrondissement.

In particular the cleanliness.

“I don't think we can take care of, for example, daily cleanliness problems in neighborhoods from a central level, which is the Hôtel de Ville de Paris.

So it is a skill that I want to decentralize, that is to say that the district mayors have the means to organize the cleaning rounds in their districts.

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This decentralization, the 17 district mayors "will have it very quickly", assured the elected socialist.

“Before the summer, we will initiate this decentralization, not only on cleanliness.

"The mayor of Paris continued:" Decentralization is a way to move towards more efficiency: the more we are in the proximity to manage issues of proximity, the better, I believe, we are doing.

The city council has maintained its campaign commitment to double during his second mandate from 500 million to 1 billion euros the budget dedicated to the maintenance and renovation of the streets of the capital.

#saccageParis, an organized attack?

Since the end of March, the Parisian executive has been facing what it qualifies as a “smear campaign” on the themes of cleanliness, but also the maintenance and choice of street furniture, under the hashtag #saccageParis which circulating on Twitter.

On RTL, Anne Hidalgo accused Pierre Liscia, various right-wing candidate for the last municipal elections in the 18th arrondissement, of being “behind many” Twitter accounts at the origin of this “very orchestrated campaign”.

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“In the 5 days this campaign took shape, there were 5,200 single author tweets.

A thousand tweets a day is not nothing, ”researcher Carlos Moreno, close to Anne Hidalgo, told AFP on Wednesday.

For this urban planner, special advisor for a “smart city” at the Paris town hall, behind #saccageParis there is “a real issue around waste, cleanliness, aesthetics and new urbanities that intersect with a phenomenon, astroturfing, which is a political, militant manipulation ”.

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