This is a photo of the Villette basin soiled with waste.
In a street, the observation of cumbersome piled up.
Elsewhere, street furniture mocked for its ugliness.
Thousands of photos have been published since Friday on Twitter, through the hashtag #saccageParis, by Internet users denouncing the
“dirt”
of the capital led by socialist Anne Hidalgo.
“Waste”
,
“disfigured city”
,
“fouled”
... More than 20,000 tweets with the expression #saccageParis, one of the most shared on the social network in France on Saturday, were identified.
"It started with a burst of anger!"
,
the creator of the hashtag
explained to the
Parisian
, preferring to remain anonymous under the pseudo “PanamePropre” on Twitter.
"I have been a Parisian for twenty years and I have seen the city deteriorate since the arrival of Anne Hidalgo at the head of the Town Hall
", affirms this inhabitant, who declares to have been
"close in the past"
to the training. centrist UDF and today belong to
"no party"
.
"Overwhelming Images"
In its wake, political figures attacked the management of the city by Anne Hidalgo, potential presidential candidate reelected mayor last June, alongside the Greens and the Communists.
"The degradation of our beautiful capital by the Hidalgo team is a national suffering
,
"
said the president of the National Rally, Marine Le Pen, when the leader of the Republicans in Paris, Rachida Dati, pointed to
"overwhelming images "
.
“Behind these photos, there is insecurity, ghettoization, the social and economic decline of Paris!”
, insists the mayor of the 7th arrondissement of the capital.
Radio silence at City Hall, where Anne Hidalgo's entourage awaits the end of the media storm.
Internet users for their part preferred to publish photos of the quays of the Seine dedicated to pedestrians and cyclists, or of the Place de la Bastille redeveloped after more than two years of work.
Going against the grain of the incompetence lawsuit brought against the municipal majority.