Rubbish Piles up in Streets of Paris (Photos)

The stench of foul waste has invaded the streets of the French capital, Paris, and beyond, as a result of its transformation into a public landfill, following recent protests against the government's plan to amend the pension system.

This waste crisis in France comes as a result of the sanitation workers’ strike, until tomorrow, March 20.

Garbage collection centers and recycling centers in Paris also stopped working, causing the accumulation of nearly 9.4 thousand tons of waste in the streets of France.

The Derichebourg company, which is responsible for collecting waste in 6 urban areas in France, refuses to resume work, which worsens conditions and increases the accumulation of waste piles in Paris.

The Associated Press reported that cautious calm returned to Paris on Saturday, after two nights of protests in which thousands of demonstrators participated across the French capital.

Where the elegant Place de la Concorde was a point of tension, angry demonstrators threw an effigy of French President Emmanuel Macron Macron into the fire to cheers from the crowd last Friday night, while police dispersed crowds with tear gas and water cannons, and hundreds were arrested.

These protests come in an attempt by the protesters to pressure parliamentarians to bring down the government Macron and to cancel the bill to raise the new retirement age, which is unpopular with the French masses, and which the French president is trying to impose without a vote in the National Assembly.

Garbage piled up in the 12th arrondissement of Paris on Saturday, meters away from a bakery, smelling bad due to the mild weather and sunshine, and some Parisians who buy baguettes at the weekend blamed the Macron administration.