Carla Bruni trashes Paris's mayor...by mocking out-of-control garbage crisis trends now
France's former First Lady Carla Bruni has ridiculed Paris's mayor by posing with huge pile of rubbish as protests over pension reforms continue.
The latest round of protests against a bill adopted by France's parliament, raising the retirement age from 62 to 64, have been running since Thursday, and have led to hundreds of arrests across the country.
Paris police said Tuesday that 234 people were arrested overnight in the capital, mostly for setting fire to rubbish in the streets. A strike by Paris rubbish collectors has begun its 16th day today.
In an Instagram post on Tuesday to her 772 thousand followers, which contained several floral emojis, singer and fashion model Bruni, 55, wrote: 'Printemps!!! Ecco la primavera! Here's the spring ! Merci @annehidalgo'.
Anne Hidalgo, the Socialist mayor referenced in the post, has said she is fully behind the strikers, and refuses to help the police.
In an Instagram post on Tuesday to her 772 thousand followers, which contained several floral emojis, singer and fashion model Bruni, 55, wrote: 'Printemps!!! Ecco la primavera! Here's the spring ! Merci @annehidalgo'
Garbage cans overflowing with trash on the streets as collectors go on strike in Paris, France on March 20, 2023
Bruni, the wife of former President Nicolas Sarkozy has been known to make political statements on her social media profiles in the past.
In April 2021, she attacked the woke culture sweeping through France in a lengthy Instagram post.
She wrote: 'Little by little and without warning, do-gooders and censorship have taken over.
'Obsessed by their image of upholders of morality, a whole load of people without culture, without experience and without courage are trying to impose their narrow-minded ideas on us.'
As the protests over the pension reforms rumble on, some of Paris' fabled narrow streets are even more choked than usual, forcing people on foot to pass through garbage heaps single file.
French CRS riot police secure the area near garbage cans on fire during a demonstration to protest the use by French government of the article 49.3, a special clause in the French Constitution, to push the pensions reform bill through the National Assembly without a vote by lawmakers, in Paris on March 18, 2023
A man walks past a fire made of matresses and waste containers amid a demonstration in Bordeaux, southwestern France, on March 18, 2023
A pedestrian walks past full waste bins in Paris' 2nd district as rubbish collectors strike against pension reforms, leaving many streets in the capital piled with stinking waste on March 17, 2023
In some of central Paris' most
