Dominique Dupré-Henry and Tangui Le Dantec are co-founders of Aux Arbres Citoyens!, an association for the protection of trees destroyed or threatened by the work of Anne Hidalgo.
Parisians have seen with astonishment, in the most beautiful avenues of the capital, the grids of trees continue to disappear one after the other lately, to be replaced by particularly unsightly and unsuitable concrete-resin coatings.
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This action carried out by the town hall appears to them as a serious attack on the image of Paris and has triggered a controversy relayed in particular on social networks.
The initiative is all the more misunderstood since, a year ago, Anne Hidalgo's first deputy, Emmanuel Grégoire, in the face of protests, had pledged, in his "Manifesto for the beauty of Paris", to reinstall the traditional Davioud tree grates that the municipality had removed.
However, this commitment was not kept.
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