Swimming in the Seine: “I will go”, announces Emmanuel Macron. “Chick?”, could retort Emmanuel Macron to himself.
Since 2016, the State and local authorities in Ile-de-France have invested around 1.4 billion euros to make the Sein and the Marne, its main tributary, swimmable. In 1988, then mayor of the capital, Jacques Chirac declared: ‘In five years, we will be able to swim in theSeine again. And I will be the first to do it’