The government on Wednesday blamed Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo for “political responsibility” for finding a way out of the garbage collectors’ strike, accusing her of “imposing” on Parisians the accumulation of trash cans in the streets of the capital. “The political responsibility lies with the mayor of Paris,” said government spokesman Olivier Véran, questioned after the council of ministers. According to him, the socialist mayor “assumes” the strike movement, linked to the more general protest against the pension reform, “and therefore it imposes on Parisians and Parisians the consequences of this”.
The mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo “does not have the power” to requisition the garbage collectors on strike against the pension reform and “does not intend to ask” the State to act in this direction, she answers Wednesday to the government then that garbage cans are strewn on the sidewalks of the capital.
Tuesday evening, on the ninth day of the renewable strike, the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin instructed the Paris police chief to ask the town hall to “requisition” means to evacuate the approximately 7,000 tons of garbage strewn the sidewalks of the capital. If the town hall “does not follow up on the requisition, the State will take the place” to evacuate the garbage cans, it was added in the entourage of Gérald Darmanin. Anne Hidalgo, who supports the social movement, “told him that she did not intend to ask him to do so and advised him to favor dialogue rather than to go by force”, adds the same source.
