Furious Frenchmen are threatening to turn the Seine into a sewer this Sunday in a bizarre protest against the eye-watering costs of Olympic preparations.
The movement, cheekily dubbed #JeChieDansLaSeineLe23Juin (I’ll poo in the Seine on June 23), has gained traction after Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo boasted she’d take a dip to prove the river’s cleanliness.
Hidalgo, however, has now back-pedalled on her pledge, conveniently citing the hastily-called French elections as reason to postpone her plunge.
A staggering £1.2 billion has been poured into purifying the Seine for Olympic swimmers and triathletes, as the river prepares to host key events during the Games.
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With just five weeks until the Games, recent tests revealed alarming levels of two types of faecal bacteria, including E.coli, falling short of Olympic standards.
Which genius had the idea to swim in that infested river for an international event?
Honestly I was impressed with their ambition
First I heard of this protest it was much more than the river clean up costs, it was a protest against macron, and generally high cost of hosting the Olympics while they’ve been passing unpopular taxes and regulations on the people specifically farmers
Sacre merde!
I do wonder about the protest - isn’t the problem that the Seine is polluted because they’ve been shitting in it?
They’re protesting by threatening to do what they are already doing.
If only protesting were that easy most of the time.
I think we in the UK should protest the water companies by going and shitting in the sea
How would we be able to tell the difference afterwards? Would it not be better to go and shit on the water companies or (as I have mentioned before) take a leaf from French farmers and drive a muck-spreader up to their HQ and give them the lot.
Yes or we could barricade them in with portaloos
on chie dans la siene parce que nous sommes français
Lemmy recommends letting it brew for a solid 3 days first
