Rubbish on the gutters, tide of waste on the Villette basin (19th century), rutted roads, bare green spaces, urban developments made of odds and ends, tags, graffiti, new urban furniture deemed unworthy or cut trees ... Since then several days, anonymous Parisians share under the hashtag #saccageparis gloomy images of the capital and rise up against the policies of Anne Hidalgo.
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#saccageparis: the Paris town hall counter-attack
"The city of light has become a trash city", protests a Twitto.
Another compares the capital to Bombay or Calcutta (India), supporting an image of an open dump in the 18th century.
Testimonials flourish on the blue bird social network.
Especially since Friday when the movement got carried away, propelling the hashtag launched on March 21 in France's Twitter trends with more than 23,000 tweets on Saturday at 5.30pm.
A "wave" that made the walls of the Town Hall tremble.
The left accuses the right of being the instigator
The instigator, @panamepropre, contacted on Saturday, cannot believe it.
“I did not expect it to take on this magnitude.
But I am not surprised.
I could not be the only one to be struck by the state of degradation of the city ”, comments this fifty-year-old Parisian who wishes to remain anonymous.
He created his account in February and now has nearly 5,500 subscribers.
Ultra-oversized city which turns into a dumping ground because of the decisions of the town halls but also because a lot of people are big pigs who do not give a damn about the state of their streets. # Saccageparis pic.twitter.com/ u0OABgJs0x
- Le Petit Nicolas (@ Nicolas84080364) April 2, 2021
The elected officials of the left see in this operation the work of the right.
Rachida Dati, mayor of the seventh and former rival of Anne Hidalgo during the municipal campaign, reacted, followed by other right-wing elected officials such as Agnès Evren, the patron of the LR federation of Paris, who calls for "a great plan of healthiness ”and a“ Paris Council dedicated to cleanliness ”.
Pierre Liscia, author of "Shame in Paris" and unfortunate candidate of the Free movement!
of Valérie Pécresse at the town hall of the 18th century denied, on Saturday on Twitter, being the instigator of the hashtag ... To his great regret, according to him.
Julien Bargeton, former deputy of Anne Hidalgo who became senator LREM, or Aurore Bergé, member of LREM for Yvelines, engaged.
And even Marine Le Pen relayed the controversy.
"This is proof that the right is not on the move," said a Twitto.
"The municipal opposition does not have the means to lead an offensive of this magnitude," adds a connoisseur of Parisian political life.
The author claims to be an "ordinary Parisian"
“Behind this #saccageparis, there are just ordinary Parisians,” replies the instigator of the hashtag, an executive in the private sector, who defines himself as “moderate progressive” and denies being inserted.
“Whistleblowers.
Grumpy.
Independent citizens.
There is everything and no one behind this hashtag.
It is a spontaneous and informal movement of citizens who end up constituting a de facto counter-power ”, affirms Jacques, a committed citizen who has been sharing for weeks on @JCQDSE edifying photos of Paris“ before ”and“ after ”.
The City "can plead isolated accidents in the management of urban space, but this becomes difficult with the compilation of all kinds of disasters thus listed", comments a resident on Twitter.
“Since the start of the pandemic, there have been no more tourists, fewer employees with the development of teleworking and fewer inhabitants in the streets due to successive confinements.
And yet the City remains dirty.
It is not only because of the lack of good citizenship, as Anne Hidalgo claims, ”also underlines Jacques.
The Bassin de la Villette was cleaned after many retweets ...
@panamepropre assures him that “this is just the beginning.
He explains wanting to "continue to put pressure on the City" so that "Paris becomes once again one of the great and beautiful capitals of the world, where life is good, where you get around by bike but where you don't wage war on cars. , where you feel safe ”.
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The process has already started to bear fruit.
Thus, just a few hours after the many retweets under #saccageparis of the Parisian article on the tide of rubbish in the Villette basin (IXth), a major cleaning operation was organized by the city.
What undoubtedly encourage the Parisians to continue the fight on Twitter.