Anne Hidalgo and Emmanuel Macron have already committed to this.
It is now the turn of Marc Guillaume, the prefect of Paris and the Île-de-France region, to announce that he too will dive into the Seine!
Asked about the subject after a press briefing on the swimming plan, the State representative responded without hesitation and with a broad smile: “You will see the prefect in the Seine.
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Successive promises which echo those not honored by a certain Jacques Chirac.
In 1990, the then mayor of Paris declared on television that he would swim in the river three years later.
Water has since flowed under the bridges of Paris.
A vast swimming plan worth 1.4 billion euros ― half financed by the State ― has been launched to clean up the Seine with the help of various stakeholders such as the City.
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