• Reports for tags or graffiti in the capital multiplied in 2021 on the Dans ma rue site.

  • To stem this phenomenon, the town hall of Paris is increasing the means and the budget of the cleaning teams.

  • The town hall also wants to strike preventively by encouraging the trustees of co-ownership to file a complaint and by compiling files sent to justice for the identification and sanction of the perpetrators of these misdeeds.

What is the difference between a good and a bad tagger?

For the town hall of Paris, there is not really one.

Concerned by the resurgence of tags and other graffiti all over the capital, the municipality presented its plan on Tuesday to stem the phenomenon.

Five hundred tags removed each day, or 650 m² cleaned, 4,000 interventions per week… Figures that could make you dizzy.

"We want to fight against this urban scourge", explains Emmanuel Grégoire, Anne Hidalgo's first deputy, to launch the conference.

Supporting photos, the first deputy first wanted to differentiate between tags and urban art: “Street artists do beautiful things and know how to choose discreet, suitable locations […] and are able to make a few winks of artistic eyes.

“The taggers themselves, multiply the signs everywhere, according to the town hall.

“Parisians know how to tell the difference very well,” says Emmanuel Grégoire.

"Put a stop" to the phenomenon

On the Dans ma rue (DMR) site, reports of tags have steadily increased throughout the year, resulting in greater needs to clean them.

Also, the town hall of Paris is increasing its capacity to meet demand.

The budget allocated to cleaning thus increases from 5.8 million euros in 2021 to 8 million euros in 2022. Seventy agents are deployed daily, reducing the average removal time from 11 to 6 days.

An imperative for the town hall, as explained by Nicolas Nordman, Deputy Mayor of Paris in charge of security and the municipal police: “Visual degradation in a city contributes to the feeling of insecurity.

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But cleaning is not the only part of the anti-tag plan.

The municipality also wants to act preventively.

"We really want to put a stop to these very narcissistic habits which constitute signing every four meters", explains Emmanuel Grégoire, who regrets that social networks lead to "a form of competition".

And for that, you have to hit hard.

Also, the municipality relies both on the reports made by the inhabitants on DMR and on the photos taken by the municipal police to constitute files which allow the police to search for and identify the authors of the tags.

Deterrent penalties

According to Emmanuel Grégoire, they would be forty, maybe fifty, responsible for a large part of the tags in the capital.

The files created will make it possible to compile files transmitted to the Paris city prosecutor and will be used against their authors in the event of flagrante delicto or identification a posteriori.

For example, the municipal team presented three signatures "Houtre", "TFR" and "Sery" which would come from two taggers, responsible for nearly 550 tags in the 5th arrondissement, for a total cleaning cost of 55,000 euros .

Their files are now in the hands of the prosecution, to whom the town hall of Paris asks that “prosecutions be initiated”.

The elected officials hope for exemplary sentences, for these first cases as for the others, in order to deter all those who would itch the spray paint.

Also, the town hall of Paris will distribute instructions to the 15,000 co-ownership trustees in the capital to encourage them to file a complaint when graffiti is found, since the town hall cannot do it for them, and reminds them that a service of the city exists to request a cleaning.

In the same vein, the first deputy assured that the town hall would soon look into a similar problem: “After the taggers, we will take care of the stickers.

“These stickers that many now stick everywhere like a signature.

Their removal, “which takes at least twenty minutes of scratching”, very often damages the surface on which they are stuck, like tags.

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