In order to demonstrate that the Seine was clean enough for Olympic athletes, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo was scheduled to swim in it on Sunday. However, she postponed the swim until after the July elections.
In addition, though he hasn’t specified when, President Emmanuel Macron has pledged to swim in the Seine before the Games.
The tagline of a newly created website reads, “They have plunged us into shit, it’s their turn to plunge into our shit.”
The website’s anonymous programmer explained to news outlet Actu Paris the reasons behind people’s ire.
“The problem is that all the resources that have been invested have not been to resolve all the social problems we have at the moment,” he stated.
We experience a sense of abandonment. We can observe where their focus was.”
With triathlon and open water swimming competitions slated to take place in the river, more than €1.4 billion (£1.2 billion) has been invested in an effort to make the water safe to swim in.
Just over five weeks after the first triathlon event, a report released on Friday revealed that the water was still too contaminated to swim in.
High concentrations of two types of faecal bacteria, including E. coli, were found in water samples.
