River of rubbish: Can the Seine be ready for the 2024 Olympics?

The host city of #Paris is hoping to organise a swimming competition for the 2024 #Olympic Games. But first, a massive clean-up operation has to get underway. Some 360 tonnes of waste are dredged up out of the murky waters every year. Everything from bikes to scooters and old safes can pollute the waters, and these items must all be pulled out and recycled. Our colleagues at France 2 report, with FRANCE 24's Camille Pauvarel.

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[aniketyadav]

I come from future, this did not help

[coolbreeze.-mortemadfasc]

What kind of animals just throw scooters and bikes into a river?

[BrianLarin]

That river has been a sewer for hundreds of years . Who would want to swim in that for the Olympics?

[luvzfrance]

I wonder if these clean up efforts were always around but it's difficult to maintain because people are still dumping or if suddenly there's a big rush to clean out the river because of the Olympics

[gautambatwar]

This is the same all across the globe....

[saddamhussein]

The water is more clear clean and refined more then Indian drinking water 😮😮😅😅

[ecuadorious]

They should be using a giant magnet instead.

[roygbiv]

its exactly the same here in japan. bicycles, scooters and even the motorcycles have been thrown into the big rivers and canals when thieves have finished using their stolen bicycles etc.

[mightybygrace.]

the River Sein looks like a genuine healing for the parisien :) it washes away all the problems

[squirrelvert]

The tap water there isn't anything to write home about, either. I lived in Paris for several months in college and wound up with an ear infection from taking showers right before bed (and wearing foam earplugs overnight). I'd done the same at home, in the U.S., for for many years. (Before you attack me, I love Paris and France and plan to do a study sabbatical there in the next several years!)

[christopherr.]

those scooters are a blight on every city that has them hated them when I visited Paris in 2019

[tellyusi]

Animals are ashamed of what these creatures are doing in polluting these water sheds.

[eddiedeleon]

Javert probably think twice before he jump

[nancyryan]

We have used the earth as a toilet - remember the movie Oh God! with George Burns??!!

[worldview]

Great honorable work, I love when people clean up after themselves, it's so dignified 👍💪😁

[kim]

What's wrong with French people? This is nonsensical.

[a.a.p]

Those Olympics again what a massive waste of money and so bad for the environment.
Cheers 🇨🇦

[livinglife]

It doesn't appear it was ready. 🫤