“Dirt, debts, ugliness: here lies Paris”

Paris ransacked, Paris disfigured, Paris despised.

Pierre Perret is right, who has just pushed the song: only the rats are happy there.

The proof, they are twice as numerous as the inhabitants and, with the sidewalks transformed into an open-air dump, they will soon be able to take possession of the garbage city.

: the proud and majestic motto looks bad.

The capital is more reminiscent of the

She sinks, but the captain has deserted.

Instead of worrying about the safety of the city and the health of its constituents, the mayor has taken the side of the garbage collectors on strike in the public sector, whom she refuses to requisition.

The lights go down, the ugliness has set in

Gateway to France, Paris-sur-Zad is like the rest of the country: undermined by greviculture (when it's not garbage collectors, it's public transport);

riddled with debt (at more than 8 billion euros, it has doubled since 2014);

stiffened by an impotent bureaucracy (twice as many civil servants…

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