embarrassing wild dumpsites near Olympic sites

The image is a stain, four months before the Olympic Games: a huge clandestine landfill, organized by squatters during Covid-19, is still located in a leisure park in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (Yvelines). It is located a stone’s throw from an Olympic site, the National Vélodrome. “We have been warning for months as local elected officials”, assures Ali Rabeh, the mayor (Génération.s) of Trappes (Yvelines). Valérie Pécresse, the president of the Île-de-France region, who has decided to clean up, ensures that the 700,000 euro project “has nothing to do with the Olympics”.

A highway ramp transformed into a landfill near the Exhibition Center

North of Paris, a highway ramp has also been transformed into illegal dumping near another Olympic site, the Villepinte Exhibition Center (Seine-Saint-Denis). “What image are we going to give as the Olympics approach?”, asks the first deputy mayor (LR) of the city. The owner of the land, Grand Paris Aménagement, filed a complaint against X. The cleaning will begin in April. Surveillance cameras will be installed to prevent new deposits before the Olympics.