“They left a piece of tire and a black plastic sheet,” remarks André, a local resident, pointing to the base of a tree in the square located just in front of the Agen prefecture (Lot-et-Garonne). .
“When we approach the gates, it still smells of slurry.
And when we see the brown marks on the stones of the facade, we tell ourselves that there is still some cleaning work to do before everything returns to the way it was before,” continues Sylvie, before adding a little disillusioned: “Frankly I understand the fight of the peasants but throwing filthy things in the middle of the city, it falls on us and it's always the same thing.
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The road services worked tirelessly to clean all the areas of the city which were more or less affected during the demonstrations, as Jean Dionis du Séjour, the MoDem mayor, explains: “We faced a colossal task , in particular to clean a wall 100 meters long and 10 meters high.
In total, we had to remove 1,500 tonnes of waste, and all this in less than a week.
I really want to salute the extraordinary work carried out by the 40 men and women of the technical services who did not count their hours or their efforts.
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