Carla Bruni among the waste: the post on spring is a dig at the mayor of Paris

«Printemps!!! Here comes spring! Here’s the spring!». As Carla Brown greeted the arrival of summer via social media. But, unlike what her words say, hers is not just a tribute to March 21st. Indeed, the singer-songwriter and former French Première Dame does is immortalized on a pile of rubbish on the streets of Paris. A clear reference to what is happening in the French capital, the scene of a long strike by garbage collectors against the pension reform. A scene for which the former model doesn’t spare a dig at the mayor of the city: «Goods, Anne Hidalgo» he wrote in his post, tagging the current mayor.

Carla Bruni’s post has already gone viral. The wife of the former French president, Nicolas Sarcozy, has made herself immortal in sportswear with sunglasses while laying on an overturned dumpster among bags and bags of waste. Smiling and with arms outstretched. An ironic and dramatic post at the same time. Which the singer-songwriter tried to lighten by inserting emoticons in the shape of plants, flowers and hearts. But that she perfectly describes the Parisian situation.

The garbage collectors strikein fact, who joined other categories of workers, began on March 6th: Since then the protest against pensions has been going on, causing chaos in the city. In fact, tons of rubbish have been accumulated on the streets. Mayor Hidalgo, while approving the ongoing protest, has asked citizens to limit the production of waste. And he called on the government to take a step back. The Municipality is thinking of a crisis unit to deal with the emergency.

The situation in Paris, therefore, is critical. And Carla Bruni’s post has divided the web. There are those who underline the discomfort experienced in the city: «Impossible to live in the former most beautiful city in the world that is becoming a slum. I’m sad for Paris and for us Parisians.” There are those who comment on the bad smells and rats seen on the street. But there are also those who point the finger at that post by the former Première Dame, accused of being far from real life and people’s concrete problems: «health, education, retirement». And they don’t even spare her comments on the dig at Anne Hidalgo: «How easy it is to attack a woman! A little bit of sisterhood right? Municipal agents have the right to strike.