The first deputy mayor of Paris explains that a return to normal will take time, because despite the requisitions, the sorting centers and incinerators are still not functioning normally.
Despite staff requisitions, waste continues to pile up in Paris. A situation to which the first deputy mayor, Emmanuel Grégoire, returned this Friday morning. On BFMTV, he admitted that “nothing changes”.
“We are doing what we can in emergency management,” assured Emmanuel Grégoire, insisting that “the situation is extremely complex”.
9600 tons of waste in Paris
The first deputy mayor of Paris explains that it is not enough to get out of dump trucks and requisition agents to ensure a return to normal in the streets of Paris, where today 9,600 tonnes of waste are piled up.
Emmanuel Grégoire evokes “key elements that do not work” in waste management, in particular incinerators which are still closed, and sorting centers, such as that of Romainville, which are “largely underused”.
The elected official, however, assures that “1,500 to 2,000 tonnes” are collected every day and that the municipality is doing “everything possible” to resolve the situation, but that a return to normal seems difficult as long as the “social crisis” continues.
However, he denies any claim that the Paris city hall continues to pay the striking agents.
“It’s false, it’s a lie”, protests the elected official, who denounces a “confusion voluntarily and cynically introduced by some members of the government to make believe that we support the strike operationally”.
“All the agents who are not on strike are at work. They spend their evenings, their nights cleaning up the many consequences of the mobilizations.”
This Thursday, new incidents took place on the sidelines of the mobilization in Paris, which gathered 800,000 demonstrators in the streets of the capital according to the CGT. The first tensions appeared near the Place de la République an hour following the start of the parade. The police used tear gas, while static demonstrators were present.
