Le Figaro Nantes
More than fifteen days after the garbage collectors resumed work in Nantes, following a three-week strike against the pension reform, the subject of waste is far from being swept away.
In some areas, trash cans continue to overflow.
To the point that it is still sometimes difficult to make your way on the sidewalk, as shown in the photo below taken this Monday in rue Gresset, near place Graslin, in the city center.
In rue Gresset, pedestrians have to weave between the waste.
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The resumption of the rounds is upset by the scale of the task: the dumpsters are quickly filled, the collections must be adapted and the residents are sometimes circumspect to note that a street has been cleaned and not the adjacent one.
For the elected opposition members of the “Democrats and Progressives of Nantes” group, the situation has lasted too long.
On Friday, they sent a letter, made public, to Mayor Johanna Rolland to express their anger.
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"Smells are horrible"
From the subject of the letter, the tone is set.
The mayor of Nantes is asked
to "act rather than parade with the thugs"
.
The sequel is also spicy:
“The waste is piling up, the rats are swarming and the smells are foul.
It is the consequence of the strikes that you support and the illegal blockades that you do not denounce.”
Criticizing an
"unacceptable situation"
, the quartet of elected municipal officials - Valérie Oppelt (former MP for Loire-Atlantique), Mounir Belhamiti (MP for Loire-Atlantique), Sarah El Haïry (Secretary of State for Youth and the SNU) and Erwan Huchet - press for
"accelerating the collection and cleaning of the streets"
.
Beyond wanting the return of
"serenity"
in the city
"for the image and attractiveness"
of Nantes, the mail in its final part is more political.
The warning is straightforward.
Johanna Rolland is questioned about a potential
"desire to maintain disorder and chaos"
.
His
“sense of responsibility”
is questioned.
The last sentence goes so far as to question his current role.
"We no longer know if you are the mayor of Nantes or if your only compass is to be the number 2 of the national PS, opponent subject to the goodwill of LFI"
, is it written.
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Contempt and arrogance
Such a position did not remain unanswered for long.
A few hours later, the majority of Nantes split a press release to slay
“such a level of indecency”
.
Here too, the words are strong and the debate more political than health.
“The content of this letter is ultimately in the image of the government, of the President of the Republic that these four Nantes elected officials support
: contemptuous, arrogant, lesson givers and […] out of step with the inhabitants of our City and of our country”
, he is crazy.
Criticizing a
"contempt"
towards workers reduced
"to thugs"
and suspected
"of not doing their job"
, the majority accuses the quartet
"of refusing to see and hear the reality",
namely the rejection of a reform deemed
"brutal, unfair and imposed".
She takes advantage of her message to, once again, call on the
"government and its supporters to show lucidity [...] and withdraw this bill"
.
On this subject of waste management, each camp therefore calls for sweeping in front of its door.
Nothing more normal.
