SDF Chatter
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • Create Community
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de to Fiction Books@literature.cafe · 2 years ago

The riverbank booksellers of Paris refuse to move for the 2024 Summer Olympics

english.elpais.com

external-link
message-square
5
fedilink
  • cross-posted to:
  • books@lemmy.ml
74
external-link

The riverbank booksellers of Paris refuse to move for the 2024 Summer Olympics

english.elpais.com

Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de to Fiction Books@literature.cafe · 2 years ago
message-square
5
fedilink
  • cross-posted to:
  • books@lemmy.ml
French police say that temporarily relocating them is necessary to maintain security during the opening ceremony
alert-triangle
You must log in or register to comment.
  • RandomDent@literature.cafe
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    9
    ·
    2 years ago

    Good for them. They’ve been there for over 450 years, it should be on the Olympics to work around them IMO.

  • CaptObvious@literature.cafe
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    6
    ·
    2 years ago

    With respect, have the Olympics not bankrupted the host country in the last few decades? Why did Paris bid in the first place?

    • Blaze@discuss.tchncs.deOP
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      2 years ago

      To probably as a display of power to the rest of the world.

      Seems waste of money indeed

  • NightAuthor@beehaw.org
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    5
    ·
    2 years ago

    Nor should they

  • gabe [he/him]@literature.cafeM
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    5
    ·
    2 years ago

    Good! They shouldn’t have to

Fiction Books@literature.cafe

fiction@literature.cafe

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !fiction@literature.cafe

The discussion of fiction books! Please tag spoilers and follow instance rules.

To find more communities on this instance, go to: !411@literature.cafe
Visibility: Public
globe

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

  • 1 user / day
  • 1 user / week
  • 11 users / month
  • 154 users / 6 months
  • 11 local subscribers
  • 1.17K subscribers
  • 108 Posts
  • 826 Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • gabe [he/him]@literature.cafe
  • BE: 0.19.8
  • Modlog
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org