Parisians are plunged into Seine River after a long ban

“Hot!” Saturday morning, for the first time, for the first time, he was drowned in a river for more than 100 years.

Iconic Suway, the French capital, since 1923, was closed to swimmers, except for the violation of pollution and tea navigation.

After a $ 1.5 billion Cleaning Project Last year was tied to the OlympicsAuthorities say Seine responds to European water quality standards in most days.

Mayor Anne Hidalgo, who was a year driver last yearSaturday morning, as a demonstration show caught a transparent glass filled with river water. Environmental authorities have been approved levels of bacteria The official limit was below.

According to the AFP, “people are a childhood dream for being swimming in Seine,” he said.

Saint-Louis in Seine’s appointed areas, including the Eiffel Tower, and in Saint-Louis, in Central Paris, are allowed public swimming. Before sunrise, a municipal officer removed the last few patches of algae with a fish net. Soon, a line of enthusiastic Parisians formed a line, waiting for the handles in his hand.

Woos and joy cries, the first swimmers entered the emerald-green water, they gave echoed on the river banks.

Each swimmer wore a bright yellow lifube, which is part of the strict security measures applied by many rescuers in high vision. The current was weak, just enough to bow down to the limbs – a reminder where the city river is still living.

“It’s great to swim in the heart of the city with high temperatures,” Amino Hoci, 25-year-old construction worker from Paris, 25-year-old construction worker from Paris. “

It is still prohibited by security reasons by taking a wave outside the designated areas.

They stopped to watch the deck, tourists and morning runs. Some of the swimmers applauded as gring and dripper climbing steel ladders. Others, like Fournier Fournier, remained with suspicion.

“I will not risk it completely,” he said, lived on the banks of the river and observed the scene from a bridge above. “I saw things you can’t imagine in seine, so I will really wait for you to be trailed.”

Floating garbage is still here and there – an underground leaf, a plastic wrap – but the smell is also noticeable: the smell is not only a soil, there is no smell like a land, tea.

“It’s so gorgeous, in Seine, Saint-Louis said,” Saint-Louis said, “Saint-Louis said. When you go to swim anywhere, but I think this is now one of the most tested areas. I do not think that the city hall can allow him to have any problems. “

He added with a laugh: “My skin is good.”

Promises to lift the swimmer by 1988, then Paris and future President Jacques Shirac, helped the first opposite.

“One of my predecessors, the Mayor of Paris dreamed of a seine dream that everyone could face,” said President Emmanuel Macron X“Collective effort” and describes the action as a result of a momentary “pride” for France.

With Record breaking temperature Since the beginning of the start of the records in 1900, France has hit Europe in the second hottest June, officials said they expect Parisians to release the refreshing swimming. Swimming stains will be open until August 31.

AFP

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