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Parisians threaten to poo in River Seine to protest Olympic clean-up costs (www.standard.co.uk)

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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.

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[–] Brunbrun6766 11 points 6 months ago

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