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In the streets of Nantes, the piles of garbage cans continue to grow.
This Thursday marks the eighth day of non-collection of waste by garbage collectors, who are on strike against the pension reform project.
The latter must also decide during the day if they continue their movement or if they resume work on Friday.
Their choice is likely to depend on what will happen in the National Assembly (the Senate has already voted in favor of the text), but also on the discussion about their working conditions, which they wish to have beforehand with Nantes Métropole.
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The community that says it
"respects the right to strike"
is content to recognize a
"delicate situation" and intervene punctually when questions
of "safety and hygiene"
arise
.
Contacted Monday by
Le Figaro
, Mahel Coppey, the assistant in charge of waste at the City of Nantes also asked the inhabitants to make
"efforts"
by keeping "if possible" their garbage cans at home or at least to put them "in sheltered from the weather”.
A position which angered the opposition of the right and the center which accuses the mayor Johanna Rolland,
"of looking elsewhere"
in the face of an
"ecological disaster"
.
The Parisian example
The elected representatives of the group Better living in Nantes, who are increasing their publications on social networks to denounce the current situation, have decided to alert the prefect of Loire-Atlantique.
In a letter sent to him on Wednesday, they denounce
"the persistence"
of a situation
"likely to affect the health and safety of Nantes residents and the ecology"
of the territory.
"Given these issues, it seems important to me to alert you and know to what extent you can assert the right to requisition competent personnel in connection with the president of Nantes Métropole", writes Senator LR Laurence Garnier, president of the group
. Better living in Nantes.
A request that echoes the situation in Paris where the prefect of police, Laurent Nuñez, announced Wednesday evening his intention to requisition municipal agents from the capital to collect waste.
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The rejections of the majority
For opposition politicians from the right and the centre, such a decision
“must make it possible to resolve the health and ecological situation as soon as possible before it becomes totally uncontrollable and dangerous for the population”
.
An opinion that absolutely does not share the majority in place.
Since the beginning of the garbage collectors' movement, it has refused the requisition of personnel, the establishment of a minimum service or to solicit the prefect to ask him for the assistance of the public force to lift the blockages in progress.
Like Mahel Coppey, she believes that it is the withdrawal of the pension reform that will put an end to the ongoing protest movement.