The river Seine has been to be cleaned for the Summer Olympics in Paris. Citizens now want to protest the price of an expensive cleaning project.
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A stinking campaign has been planned on Some for the French president Emmanuel Macron and the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo for my head.
Citizens urge each other to defecate in the Seine river that flows through Paris. The campaign goes by the name “Je Chie dans la Seine le 23 juin”, i.e. “Damn the Seine on June 23”.
The topic has been discussed in recent weeks, for example, in the communication service X. There has also been news about the campaign, for example At Ilta-Sanom, at the Washington Times and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on SBS.
Its dirtiness has long been a concern for decision-makers in France and Paris. Now the river was wanted clean for the Paris Summer Olympics, so that you can swim in it, like the 1900 Paris Olympics.
The swimming part of the triathlon competition and the open water swimming competition are planned to be held in the river.
According to Reuters, the president Macron and the mayor of Paris Hidalgo have even promised to jump into the Seine themselves to show that the clean-up measures have been successful. Hidalgo says he will swim in the Seine on June 23.
The poop campaign in question is now protesting the price of the cleaning project. The authorities have put about 1.4 billion euros into the river cleaning project.
The rapture has also been established own website. The website also has a calculator that calculates how long it takes for the excrement to travel from your place of residence to Paris. In other words, the counter shows when to make the needs in the river, so that the “gift” is in Paris during the swimming excursion of the president and the mayor of Paris.
The website also has the slogan of the campaign.
– They led us to shit, so now they get to swim in our shit, the phrase can be freely translated into Finnish.
The Paris Olympics begin on June 26 and continue until August 11. According to Reuters the water is tested every day during the Olympics to ensure its safety.