Work on the forecourt of the Gare de l'Est led to a major bicycle removal operation last week in Paris. Since the beginning of February, large posters have invited cyclists to remove their bikes from the station grounds for a few weeks.
Those who didn't play the game or who hung their nails on the station gates paid the price. Officially, “there is no longer an impound dedicated to bicycles”, indicates the Paris town hall on its website. If the two-wheelers are not claimed by their owners, they “will be destroyed”