The Ill became green, really green. A fluorescent green, harmless and non-polluting but impressive. Saturday July 4, the tributary of the Rhine which contributes to the beauty of Strasbourg disguised itself as welcoming the new environmental mayor of this European capital, Jeanne Barseghian.
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The dye was released by the local team of Extinction Rebellion, a movement of young environmental activists, to alert them to a project " to completely contain 42,000 tonnes of hazardous waste in former potash mines managed by StocaMine ". Waste likely to infiltrate the Rhine water table, one of the largest water reserves in Europe. A welcome gift but above all, perhaps, a warning to the new elected official. In Strasbourg, Marseille, Lyon, Bordeaux, Tours, Besançon or Poitiers, in all these big cities now run by environmentalists - most often in left-wing union teams - the mayors are both under the
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