It is a hazardous dance that the merchants of the rue des Lombards (1st and 4th arrondissement of Paris) and more generally of the Châtelet district witness every day.
In these extremely busy cobbled streets, be careful where you put your foot.
Due to a major design issue, the roadway has large holes and unstable slabs which pose a question of pedestrian safety.
Olivier Robert, manager of The Labo bar located on rue des Lombards for 11 years, and president of the National Union of Gay Enterprises (SNEG), has picked up more than one passerby in recent years.
Recently, particularly uneven paving stones just in front of his establishment caused several dozen people to fall, according to his own count.
Last week, after "more than 20 reports on the City website provided for this purpose,
Dans ma rue
", including the last one in February which remained unanswered according to him, Olivier Robert decided to "take things in hand ".
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