Mounds of rotting rubbish and scampering rats have become a subject of tourist photography on the ninth day of a strike by Parisian bin collectors who are protesting against President Macron’s move to raise the retirement age.
Visitors are turning their cameras on piles of malodorous bin bags that block the view of Notre Dame cathedral and spoiling the silhouette of the Eiffel Tower on the Trocadéro esplanade. Ministers have accused the council of doing nothing to remove the 5,800 tonnes of rubbish that are littering the pavements.
