Posted on 12/05/2016 10:39:38 PM PST by Olog-hai
Authorities have announced plans to give refugee groups the proceeds from a huge sale of love locks that were removed from Paris bridges last year.
A year and a half ago, workers stripped the Pont des Arts of around 1 million padlocks that had been attached by lovers over the years.
Since then, the 65 tonnes of love locks (this inludes 20 tonnes taken from the nearby Pont de l’Archevêché) have been gathering dust.
But not for much longer.
Bruno Julliard, the environment chief at Paris City Hall, has announced that ten tonnes worth of the locks would be sold off to anyone hoping to take a piece of modern Paris history with them. …
(Excerpt) Read more at thelocal.fr ...
Why did they remove them in the first place? It’s not like the people that paid for the bridge put them there.
Let’s see....you’d pay $10 for a busted corroded lock that was put there by somebody else. I wondering why?
Could it be that this country, a fountainhead of culture, beauty, art and creativity can’t quite come up with a better solution for their self-inflicted refugee problem? Perhaps I am being too harsh.
100K Euros. I think that would pay for 1/3rd of a slum Paris apartment for one family that the new occupants would set on fire because it wasn’t sufficient. Brilliant!
I guess just as long as a ministry of used love locks can be set up with 12-15 people earning 60K Euro salaries annually who can never be fired, this should be a winning program.
Too much weight
Gonna raise money for their RAPEfugees.
They’d do better to recycle the good ones into cartridge brass, they’re gonna need it...
Stupid idea from an increasingly ignorant and out-of-touch government.
If that is €100,000 to buy tickets home for refugees, I approve.
They’ll be dredging people’s pennies out of the wishing wells next to help pay for their precious little Muslims.
Where is Europe getting all the food for the extra 3 million or so “refugees”?
First I’ve heard of these ‘lovelocks’...should have just left them there.
They were weighing down the bridge and causing structural stress.
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