Need to poop in Paris? Today you can join Parisians in protesting French President Emmanuel Macron and Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo by defecating in the Seine before they jump into the water!
Paris residents are protesting against the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris and the city’s massive 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 swim in water allegedly unsafe for a century, Parisians hatched a plan online and on social media to have politicians “bathe in our feces” ”.
The hashtag #JeChieDansLaSeineLe23Juin, which translates to “I shit in the Seine on June 23,” and a website of the same name has gone viral, with supporters of the protest using it as a rallying cry for people to shit.
The website even has a calculator that tells you when to poop in the river so that your package can be delivered to the capital by noon.
A popular meme with the hashtag shows a toilet on the bank of a river:
FLASH – Countermeasures #JeChieDansLaSeineLe23Juincity of #Paris It was decided to build the toilet on the bank of the Seine. pic.twitter.com/vzOlGCzKu6
— Pediavenir (@Pediavenir) May 23, 2024
Today is a big day.
According to CBS:
2024 paris summer olympics There is only one month left before the competition, but the Seine, one of the focal points of the event, is still fiercely controversial. After several months of testing, it has been shown High bacterial content in sewage Just weeks before the Olympians are due to take the plunge, residents are fed up with river pollution and are threatening mass defecation in protest.
A website emerged using the viral hashtag #JeChieDansLaSeineLe23Juin, which translates to “I shit in the Seine on June 23rd.” A Google search for the phrase will lead people to the website, which is represented on the search engine by a “” emoji. The site repeated the phrase and directly mocked French President Emmanuel Macron and Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo, who have both vowed to go swimming before the Olympics to prove the Seine is safe.
“Because after putting us in our shit, they have to bathe in our shit,” the site declares. It also features a calculator that lets users enter how far they live from central Paris. , and then calculate the time they need to defecate in the river so that the waste finally reaches the center of the capital at noon on June 23.
In May, tests by the Surfers charity found levels of pollutants higher than allowed by sports federations, and a reading on Paris’s iconic Pont Alexandre III showed higher levels of pollutants than in triathlon and open water The maximum allowed by the swimming federation is three times higher. Testing during the first eight days of June showed continued contamination.
Despite unsafe levels of E. coli and enterococci currently detected in the water and plans by Parisians to further contaminate the water with faeces, IOC executive Christophe Dubey declared there was “no reason to doubt” that Olympic events would be possible this summer. will be held at the river.
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