Gérald Darmanin gave Tuesday evening March 14 instructions to the prefect of police of Paris to ask the town hall to "
requisition
" means to evacuate the thousands of tons of garbage strewing the sidewalks of the capital, on the ninth day of the garbage collectors' strike, learned AFP from the Ministry of the Interior.
In the entourage of the Minister of the Interior, his decision is explained by “ the
current
sanitary conditions ” and a letter sent to this effect by the LR mayor of the 7th arrondissement, Rachida Dati.
If the town hall "
does not follow up on the requisition, the State will take the place
" to evacuate the garbage cans, added those around Gérald Darmanin.
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7000 tons of garbage
The garbage collectors and cleanliness agents of the City of Paris, who contest the pension reform project, also voted on Tuesday to continue their strike in the capital where waste is piling up on the sidewalks.
Some 7,000 tonnes of uncollected garbage have been counted for the time being, according to the first deputy mayor of Paris, Emmanuel Grégoire, who deplores a “
catastrophic situation created by the government
”.