Pierre Perret has spoken: he no longer likes Paris. The garbage collectors’ strike, but also the facilities planned for bicycles in the capital, are not to the taste of the 88-year-old singer.
“Paris ransacked” is the name of Pierre Perret’s new song. The singer takes a critical look at the state of the French capital, where garbage collectors have been on strike for more than a week.
“In Paris, disgusting Paris, only the rats are happy,” he sings. Indeed, today there would be 10,000 tons of garbage cans on the sidewalks of the city of light, which worries the health authorities about the risk that a proliferation of rats and other rodents may represent.
The singer adds that “the droppings that bloom on the sidewalks decorate this large dump”, or even: “In Paris, winter and summer, we don’t touch the dirt”.
A tackle to the mayor of Paris
If some still had doubts, the veil is now completely lifted on the feelings that Pierre Perret has for Anne Hidalgo, mayor of the city of Paris.
The PS mayor has been committed to an ecological policy for nearly ten years. But this is not to the taste of all Ile-de-France residents, especially those who travel by car.
Pierre Perret never quotes the mayor of Paris, but we easily recognize her in his verses: “Poor Paris, which has become so cra-cra, we know who did this to you. It’s the sprightly piaf skulls, which eat seeds at the town hall.
He criticizes him in particular for having made part of the rue de Rivoli only accessible to bicycles and buses: “rue de Rivoli become riderivélo”
Finally, the 88-year-old singer underlines the fact that the city cannot solve the drug problem. For several years, camps for people addicted, in particular to crack, have been regularly dismantled and reformed a little further on.
