No More Pee Smell in This French City: the Town Hall Sprays a Bubble-Gum Perfume in the Streets, "if People Were a Little More civilized..."

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It is a scourge from which all the cities of France suffer: the smell of urine in the streets. And the cause is known, the citizens who confuse public spaces with toilets. To remedy this, the town hall of Villeneuve-Saint-Georges has decided to opt for an innovative solution that combines repression and spraying of a bubble-gum perfume. In place since May, this unusual solution seems to bear fruit since the residents plebiscite it. For many mont…