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Street vendors are “almost part of the landscape”: when Paris town hall normalizes delinquency

2024-02-21T14:01:40.598Z

Highlights: Street vendors are “almost part of the landscape”: when Paris town hall normalizes delinquency. For Pierre Liscia, regional councilor (Free!) of Île-de-France, these comments show that... street sellers like bonneteau players who abound in the capital are a real scourge. This is organized crime, it is mafia networks which fuel trafficking and smuggling. They harm tourists, traders, Parisians but above all they damage the image of Paris. Nothing to do with second-hand booksellers…


INTERVIEW - In an interview with Le Parisien, the deputy for tourism at Paris town hall estimated that street vendors around the Eiffel Tower were “almost part of the Parisian landscape”. For Pierre Liscia, regional councilor (Free!) of Île-de-France, these comments show that...


Regional councilor of Île-de-France, Pierre Liscia is spokesperson for the “Libres!” movement.

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- In the columns of Le Parisien, Monday February 19, the elected EELV Frédéric Hocquard, deputy for tourism at Paris town hall, highlighted the usual presence of street vendors around the monument, considering them to be “almost part of the landscape ".

Are they part of Parisian folklore?

Can we put them on an equal footing with Parisian second-hand booksellers, for example?

Pierre LISCIA.

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These comments are shocking and above all irresponsible.

Street sellers like bonneteau players who abound in the capital are a real scourge.

This is organized crime, it is mafia networks which fuel trafficking and smuggling.

They harm tourists, traders, Parisians but above all they damage the image of Paris.

Nothing to do with second-hand booksellers…

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Source: lefigaro

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