“Fed up with Games bashing! Stop it!” Enough is enough for Anne Hidalgo. The mayor of Paris expressed her annoyance in the middle of the municipal council meeting this Wednesday, May 22, in the face of the numerous criticisms raised by the next Paris Olympic Games. The competition begins in barely two months and yet, the majority of Parisians display reproachful expressions each time the subject is raised. On social networks, gossip abounds, especially about the implementation of the individual digital pass, the cost of transport, or even the impossibility of traveling in the capital during the Games. Many Internet users are also amused by the questionable state of the Seine, in which the councilor promised to swim, just below the Town Hall.
“But fed up. To all those struggling to enjoy who don’t at all want to be able to celebrate something together. Fed up”, launched Rachida Dati’s rival, whose comments were rebroadcast in the daily newspaper of C to you a few hours after his speech. “Open your eyes and ears and let yourself be surprised, because it’s going to be an absolutely exceptional moment,” said Anne Hidalgo to the skeptics. Invited on the set of the France 5 show, David Douillet was taken aback by the unusual expression used by the socialist to denounce her detractors: “I didn’t know that pain-to-come was an Olympic discipline!”
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Anne Hidalgo will dive into the Seine with Emmanuel Macron!
If Anne Hidalgo is offended by so much ill will, it is because in 2017, she actively participated in obtaining the event in the territory. The mayor wants to set an example by diving head first into the river that crosses Paris, where swimming has been prohibited for more than 100 years, not only because of the dangers caused by river navigation but above all because of pollution. . And the mother of Arthur Germain and Matthieu and Elsa Jantet is not the only one to have taken on this challenge to prove that the aquatic events can take place in the Seine. According to what was reported The ParisianEmmanuel Macron himself, as well as the Paris police prefect, Laurent Nuñez, and the regional prefect Marc Guillaume, will also jump into troubled waters on June 23.
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