The case caused a stir last May.
Within days, 100,000 Parisians had signed the petition against the felling of 42 trees near the Eiffel Tower as part of the site's renovation project.
"We realized that there was an extreme sensitivity on this subject," said Emmanuel Grégoire, first assistant to Anne Hidalgo, who had finally given up playing the chainsaw.
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