Paris burns

[ladymuck]

Nope.

There are a few local authorities I know who either don't give out wheelie bins or if homes aren't suitable for them, tell you to put your rubbish in black bin bags. Recycling goes in different bags.

You then leave them either on the outside boundary of your property, or in an accessible place on your property the night before bin collection day.

If you leave them out earlier than the night before bin collection day you can get fined for fly tipping as the local animal population will split the bags. (Though in some cases I suspect it is the local homeless human population.)

So one of my relations household puts all their refuse and recycling in bags then in different traditional dustbins, then around 8pm before bin collection day every week they take them out of the dustbins to put the bags in an accessible place on their property. The authority has fined people who have done it earlier who leave it outside their property boundary.

Then there are are a couple of people I know who put their rubbish and recycling bags out multiple times a week in bags outside their property's boundary. People tend to be sneaky and dump their rubbish on their neighbours so I've not heard of people being fined.

(I've always lived in places where I can have wheelie bins.)

RBKC was like that - my old road was all huge houses converted to flats and, whilst each block had a communal bin, all the bags of rubbish had to be taken out and put onto the pavement on bin day. TBF the bin men did that each time but every Tuesday and Friday the street looks like a right tip.

[saptastic]

Oh dear. Paris is such a fragmented society - much more so than London.
We all know when there is a police injustice unfortunately for many it becomes a green light to loot as we have seen many times before.
And the hard working small business owners suffer.

[d000hg]

Some places are banning demonstrations for tonight... I'm sure they'll stop torching cars and looting now it's not allowed.

[NotAllThere]

We were planning on staying in St Quentin overnight on our way home from the UK on Sunday night. We've cancelled and booked a place in Mons instead. (Belgium).

[vetran]

Oh dear. Paris is such a fragmented society - much more so than London.
We all know when there is a police injustice unfortunately for many it becomes a green light to loot as we have seen many times before.
And the hard working small business owners suffer.

gotta get your new kicks somehow!

[JustKeepSwimming]

Swear the news just said that police armouries had been looted.

[NotAllThere]

Swear the news just said that police armouries had been looted.

Perhaps you're confused about the gun shop being looted? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66076332

[vetran]

I was listening earlier to Matt Frei on LBC his guest was a female journalist who had lived in Nantes. She and Frei were saying there are no go areas in France with armed informal militia The Police seem to have lost the streets and this is probably the result.

Sadly it seems the UK is headed the same way with machete fights, no go areas with religion, guns & drugs.

Not sure the institutionally racist bunch realise the mess they are making.

[JustKeepSwimming]

I was listening earlier to Matt Frei on LBC his guest was a female journalist who had lived in Nantes. She and Frei were saying there are no go areas in France with armed informal militia The Police seem to have lost the streets and this is probably the result.

Sadly it seems the UK is headed the same way with machete fights, no go areas with religion, guns & drugs.

Not sure the institutionally racist bunch realise the mess they are making.

That been called out a few times over the years. Last time I heard about "Zone urbaine sensible" (which aren't all no go zones but many are), I remember many of the reporters claiming no go zones didn't exist and if they did it would only be because of institutional racism.

Not really a surprise that French National Front got 41% of the votes last presidential election and holds 30%+ for the last decade.

[SueEllen]

I just saw a clip on twatter of shop keepers protecting their property from looting with baseball bats and sticks.

All parties looked white.

In other clips the looters are an ethnically diverse and aged bunch.

So it appears people are just using it as an excuse to steal.