Par Olivia Kouassi
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THE garbage men of the city of Paris began on Monday March 6, 2023 a movement of strike renewable to protest against the project of pension reform wanted by the government and currently being discussed in the Senate. It front of waste which have been piling up for a few days in the streets of the capital, the town hall of the 16th arrondissement has called on the central town hall to react and denounces a hostage taking“. The town hall of the 6th arrondissement calls on the “health risks” generated by this long-term strike.
600 tonnes of waste in the streets of the 16th arrondissement
“Once again, we are struck by the inability of the central town hall to anticipate these crises and its inability to manage them”, fulminates the town hall of the 16th arrondissement of the capital in a press release Friday March 10, 2023. Exasperated by the 600 tons of waste residential uncollected since March 6 and faced with “unacceptable consequences in terms of hygiene and sanitation”, the borough hall regrets its inability to call on private service providers.
The district town hall denounces the support of the Town Hall for the protest movement against the pension reform project wanted by the government and denounces a “taking hostage by the central town hall” in the face of “the limits of a policy of territorialization “.
For his part, Jean-Pierre Lecoq, mayor of the 6th arrondissement, called on the central town hall in a press release “to assume its responsibilities in terms of public health and that all the necessary measures are taken to mitigate the health risks caused by the strike preventing garbage collection.’
The incineration centers of Ivry (Val-de-Marne), Issy-les-Moulineaux (Hauts-de-Seine) and Saint-Ouen (Seine-Saint-Denis) have been occupied by strikers since 6 March, which makes waste collection and treatment impossible. Only the center of Romainville is in working order, which explains, according to the Parisian municipality, a more fluid situation in the north-east of Paris.
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