Garbage collectors' strike in Paris: Anne Hidalgo "does not respond" to the request for requisitions

Europe 1 with AFP 19:06 p.m., March 15, 2023

The PS mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo "will not respond" to the request of the prefecture of police to requisition the garbage collectors of the city to limit the effects of their strike against the pension reform, she wrote in a letter sent to AFP. While garbage cans continue to accumulate in the capital on the tenth day of the strike, with 7,600 tons not collected, the government and the town hall, which supports the social movement, blame each other for this "catastrophic" situation according to the town hall.

A "public health issue"

In the Senate, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said that if the mayor did not make requisitions, the prefect of police of Paris would proceed to requisitions "tonight or at the latest tomorrow", because it is a "question of public health". "It is paradoxical that the state asks local authorities to solve a problem that it has created itself while the requisition is, by right, a competence of the state," wrote Anne Hidalgo to the prefect of police Laurent Nuñez.

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"The demand of the garbage collectors of the City of Paris, who legitimately wish not to work two more years, and who are mobilizing to oppose it, is just," said the elected socialist. "The only response that can calm the current climate is to engage in social dialogue rather than engage in a showdown by making the requisitions you are calling for," she added.