Can the President of the Republic afford a wild and free poster campaign on the walls of the capital?
Illegally stick his campaign posters, almost two years before the presidential elections, by ten, on monuments of Paris, construction barricades, iron curtains of shops, post office letter boxes, EDF street cupboards ... Everything is there.
This Wednesday, the City urgently sent armadas of municipal agents from its cleaning teams.
"The take-off operations will take several days," warns a spokesperson for the town hall.
"On the initiative of the President of the Republic and his training"
"It's a shame, regrets a bit cynical François Vauglin, the PS mayor of the XIth, whose arrondissement has been particularly targeted, that the taxes of Parisians are used to take off savage political posters, which more, surprisingly, are at the initiative of the President of the Republic and his training.
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Place de Catalogne, next to Montparnasse station.
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The posters in question, plastered both at Place de la République, on the avenues of the 11th arrondissement, 12th, 9th, and at Montparnasse, opposite the station or in the 7th arrondissement, are all the same.
"In the midst of a crisis, he is taking care of his re-election ..."
Patrick, a young Parisian, “discovered this campaign while going to the office.
In the 20 minutes of my bike ride, I must have seen 150 posters!
»He estimates.
“We are in the midst of coronavirus and attacks, he protests.
And what does the President of the Republic do?
He is taking care of his re-election!
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We see Emmanuel Macron of three-quarter, surrounded, his hand raised, atmosphere meeting, with the slogan "Together, we will succeed."
The Republic on the march ”.
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Were the posters pasted by activists of the presidential party who walked the streets of Paris with their pot of glue?
Or by big companies and advertisers?
To the leadership of the Republic on the march, which assumes these 200,000 posters sent to all local committees, "everywhere in France" in recent days, it is specified that it is the work of activists, which it nevertheless encourages to " respect dedicated spaces ”, while recognizing that some activists may indulge in“ wild ”posters.
A party executive blows: "I have already done activism, I know what that can be".
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“I doubt that it is about collage of the militants, reframes however a Parisian elected official.
The modus operandi, the speed, the targets chosen such as construction barricades and other inaccessible points rather show the work of a company ”.
"An admission of weakness after a series of electoral disappointments"
Nelly Garnier, elected Parisian of the XIth and new spokesperson for the Republicans group on the Council of Paris tackles “this visual pollution which degrades Paris, the architectural and urban environment”.
And in passing Emmanuel Macron: "This poster campaign is an admission of weakness after a series of electoral disappointments".
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Side Paysages de France, the association which fights against these wild displays, we denounce "an inadmissible operation from the Elysee Palace and people who should be exemplary.
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For Pierre-Jean Delahousse, his spokesperson, the message that LREM sends is “We don't care about the environment”.
And "we are above the law".
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In the direction of the LREM, on the contrary, we see "the importance [...] of continuing to have social ties and to go out to meet people with leaflets or posters, while respecting sanitary conditions [ …] ”.
Nearly 500 new wild postings per week
In the city, we don't have quite the same point of view.
Every week nearly 500 new wild displays bloom, reported in the DansMaRue app.
Each week, nearly 1600 m² of posters are removed.
Result: the City files a complaint, invoices the cleaning operations and seizes the prosecution.
In 2019, the city recovered 356,000 euros in compensation for 724 bonding operations that were attacked.
For this start of the year, 124,000 euros have already entered the cash registers for 230 gluing operations.
But this bonding of LREM will pass between the mesh of the net.
“Unlike cases of wild posting for commercial purposes, says one at the Town Hall, the City does not take a collection process for political posting.
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