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Jeremy Attali
Published on Oct 14, 2024 at 11:31 a.m.
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Exasperated by the dirt that sometimes plagues Marseille, Sarah Bourgeois co-founded, in 2017, the Facebook group Marseille Poubelle la Viewhich to date brings together more than 21,000 subscribers.
Apolitical, he has often hit the headlines and even attracted wrath from all sides, at the same time as he gave voice to Phocaeans who were as much disillusioned as they were determined not to give up anything. The original Parisian, however, reveals to Marseille news that she handed over.
Marseille, “an open-air trash can”
It was after returning from a trip to Japan that Sarah broke down. “It was the end of summer and I had the impression that Marseille was an open trash bin,” she remembers.
Like a cry from the heart, she then posts a message of dismay on her Facebook account. In a few hours, almost 400 reactions accumulate under her post and the impression of not being alone in seeing this situation with.
I was often told that what interested the people of Marseille was jobs, not dirt. That the Phocaeans were poor and that cleanliness was a concern for sore people. I have always found this speech contemptuous.
Sarah Bourgeois
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“We were accused of doing Marseille-bashing”
The group Marseille Poubelle la Vie will indeed counter this speech. Every day, contributors take photos of waste and trash flowing down several streets of the city, with the aim ofalert politicians as much as residents on the actions to be taken.
“The problem is that at the start, we were accused of doing Marseille-bashing,” says Sarah. “Jean-Claude Gaudin’s team even described us as extreme left. It was beyond me.”
Since 2017, the Marseille Poubelle la Vie Facebook group has been warning about different forms of dirt in the city. (©Marseille Poubelle la Vie / Facebook)
Although she refused any political commitment for a long time, she allowed herself to be convinced, during the last municipal elections, to join Martine Vassal’s team. “Not because I’m a right-wing woman,” says Sarah. “But because I like the person, I find them competent to resolve problems.”
Sarah Bourgeois
Sarah leaves Marseille Poubelle la Vie and hands over
Printemps Marseillais wins the elections and Sarah, who was not keen on campaigning anyway, notices that things are difficult to move on.
” I have been heavily attackedI discovered the sides unpleasant politics,” she says. “The inertia, the inability to come to an agreement between the city and the metropolis, to overcome the divisions for the inhabitants, pains me. I realize that citizens can only count on themselves.”
If it is not this episode which pushes her to leave the administration of the group, just like that of Marseille Quiet my Citydevoted to insecurity, the fact of passing on allows him to take a step back. And to measure, despite everything, the progress made.
We have shown that the people of Marseille are not indifferent to the cleanliness of their city. I was the center of media attention, not because I wanted to, but because no one else wanted to do it. I “marked” the subject with my paw, but I hope that the group will start again. Maybe some people didn’t want to join him because of me? I wish good luck and good luck to the whole team, as well as to all the people of Marseille who make their voices heard. Because contrary to what people think, I really like people!
Sarah Bourgeois
“I long for more calm”
If in the future, the fifty-year-old does not intend to completely withdraw from public life, the prospect of leaving Marseille is taking shape more and more. “However, it wouldn’t be a relief,” says Sarah. “But I aspire to more calm, to something more harmonious in my daily life, which I don’t have here. I tell myself instead that I’m going to experience other things elsewhere. A change of scenery, from time to time, is no worse.”
When it comes time to look in the rearview mirror, the Parisian will however regret “interaction with people”but also “the Corniche and its sumptuous sunsets”. Not to mention that his two children are Phocaeans and “proud to be”. Some things still seem difficult to leave behind.
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