PARIS — A “dirty and ugly” urban center spoiled by rubbish piling up and flotsam floating in the water? Or still the City of Light boldly dealing with modern metropolitan problems?
A viral hashtag has in recent days sought to rally Parisians’ anger on what some residents see as an unacceptably dirty city, a far cry from the romantic image of the French capital promoted in books and films.
The hashtag — #saccageparis (trashed Paris) — has seen residents bombard Twitter with photos of grim Paris scenes in a drive that the city hall, run by Socialist mayor Anne Hidalgo, has denounced as a “smear campaign”.
“Like all cities in France, Paris is faced…
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