Should you poop in Paris? French President Emmanuel Macron and Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo can join Parisians in protest today by defecating in the Seine River before jumping into the water!
Paris residents are protesting the city's massive spending on the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics and a project to clean up the Seine River to ensure Olympic swimmers can compete safely.
After French President Emmanuel Macron and Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo vowed to jump into waters known to be dangerous for swimming for the past 100 years, Parisians took to online and social media to formalize a plan to “bathe politicians in our rooms” . .”
The hashtag #JeChieDansLaSeineLe23Juin (I pooped in the Seine on June 23rd) and websites with names like this went viral, with protest supporters using it as a slogan urging everyone to poop. In the water.
The website even has a calculator to tell you how long you'll have to poop in the river to deliver a package to the capital by noon.
A popular meme with the hashtag shows a toilet along a riverbank.
FLASH – TO FIGHT OPERATIONS #JeChieDansLaSeineLe23Juinurban #fly It was decided to install toilets on the banks of the Seine River. pic.twitter.com/vzOlGCzKu6
— Pediavenir (@Pediavenir) May 23, 2024
Today is an important day.
Per CBS:
2024 Paris Summer Olympics Although the event is only a month away, unpleasant controversies are still brewing over the Seine River, one of the event's focal points. After several months of testing High levels of bacteria from sewage Just weeks before the Olympic team jumps into the water, residents fed up with river pollution are threatening mass defecation in protest.
A website emerged using the viral hashtag #JeChieDansLaSeineLe23Juin, which translates to “Pooped in the Seine on June 23.” Searching for that phrase on Google takes people to a website that displays the “” emoji in the search engine. The site repeated this phrase, directly mocking French President Emmanuel Macron and Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo, who had vowed to go swimming before the Olympics to prove that the Seine River was safe.
“Because after they poop us, it’s up to them to bathe in our poop,” the website declares. It also provides a calculator that allows users to input how far they are from the center of Paris and then calculate when their waste will have to defecate in the river to reach the center of the capital at noon on June 23.
Last May, the Surfrider charity conducted tests that found higher levels of contaminants than allowed by the sport's federations, with measurements taken on Paris' iconic Pont Alexandre III leading to triathlons and the Open. Levels were found to be three times higher than the maximum allowed by the Water Swimming Federation. French news agency AFP said. Tests during the first eight days of June showed continued contamination.
The water is currently unsafe for swimming due to E. coli and enterococcus bacteria, and despite plans by Parisians to further pollute the water with their faeces, International Olympic Committee (IOC) executive member Christophe Duby said there was “no reason to doubt”. declared. “Olympic events will be held on the river this summer.
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