Here is a new subject which could sow confusion within the municipal majority of Paris.
While Anne Hidalgo's second term of office began with a political standoff between environmentalists and socialists over the resignation of assistant culture Christophe Girard for his friendly relations with the writer accused of pedophilia Gabriel Matzneff, the next Paris Council could also be electric.
At issue: 5G.
1622 relay stations in Paris today
The 5th generation of mobile telephony is the subject of debate in France.
While nearly 70 left-wing elected officials and environmentalists, including Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Yannick Jadot, the mayor of Marseille Michèle Rubirola, or the new environmental mayors of Bordeaux and Lyon, asked in a JDD forum for a moratorium on the deployment 5G technology, environmentalists in Paris have decided to put pressure on Anne Hidalgo.
They are asking the City of Paris to take a position on an immediate moratorium on the deployment of 5G and will submit a wish to this effect at the next Paris Council, which will begin on October 6.
They want the organization of a “democratic debate in Paris and in the Metropolis on 5G”.
Currently, the capital has 1,622 relay antennas on its roofs (with the 16th century in the lead, which alone has 170 antennas).
The mobile telephony charter renegotiated by the city of Paris in 2017 with the operators had made it possible to limit the maximum threshold for exposure to waves in closed living spaces to 5V / m.
Environmentalists, in the name of the “principle of precaution and vigilance”, demand that the revision of this charter relating to the deployment of 5G not be initiated before a climate and environmental study as well as a public consultation is carried out.
“Our job is to deploy mobile networks to provide the connectivity that a large majority of citizens want […] We always do so within a legal framework which is one of the strictest in Europe and which guarantees consultation with local elected representatives, an essential step for the proper information of all stakeholders and citizens, ”recalls the French telecoms federation.
No comment to the City
The subject is all the more hot as the auction for the allocation of frequencies for 5G is due to start on September 29.
The President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron recently pleaded for this new technology ironically on the opponents of 5G who would prefer according to him “the Amish model”.
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So which side will Anne Hidalgo take, whose ambitions for the next Presidential elections seem to be becoming clearer day by day?
For the moment, the Town Hall refuses to comment on 5G.
The mayor of Paris will speak on the subject during the preparation of the Council of Paris on October 6, 7 and 8.
The Parisian example will inevitably be looked at beyond the ring road.