Who pays the bill for the damage?

Last week in Lyon (Rhone)an unpleasant surprise awaited the inhabitants when they woke up. A famous fresco painted in the 90s was covered with inscriptions in white paint. “It distorts the fresco, what it tells, its story”estimates a local resident. The work attracts nearly a million visitors per year. Its degradation saddens tourists. You must now erase the tag without damaging the work. The amount of this delicate work has not been quantified. So how can we stop the scourge of tags?

A specific application

In Creteil (Val de Marne)four employees are mobilized full-time, representing a budget of 180,000 euros per year for the town hall. Here, the tags are cleaned with sand blasted at high pressure. “Removing a tag by an agent is a lot of work behind it”affirms Souhaib Azloukresponsible for the cleaning teams. To strengthen its anti-tag arsenal, the town hall has launched an innovation. An application on which residents can report graffiti. In Paris, the curtain of a dressing table has already been cleaned twice by the town hall, but the tags keep coming back. Paris town hall devotes 7 million euros to the tag each year.