Parisians turn on Socialist mayor with Twitter campaign accusing her of making city ‘rubbish dump’

Furious Parisians have turned on their Socialist mayor with a Twitter campaign where they are accusing her of gross mismanagement which as left Paris looking like a ‘rubbish dump’. Thousands of pictures have emerged on social media in the past few days of piles of rubbish filling the streets of the historic city under the … Read more

Parisians rush to escape city amid French lockdown

Parisians piled on to trains in an exodus from the French capital today hours before a third of the country is plunged into a new month-long lockdown.  Trains heading west to Brittany and south to Lyon were fully booked on Friday with platforms packed at the Gare Montparnasse as 12million people in the Paris region … Read more

Parisians enjoy taste of lockdown freedom ahead of Christmas, while hospitality workers protest

Liberte! Parisians finally enjoy freedom after six weeks of lockdown but they still face 8pm curfew and a bar and restaurant ban until January Revellers enjoyed rides at Christmas Village at Hotel de Ville in Paris last night But hospitality workers also protested in capital over festive season opening ban Police officers also protested in … Read more