… several dozen people gathered on Pont d’Austerlitz, the bridge over the Seine River…

The rally in Paris, organised by one of France’s largest labour unions, the Confederation Generale du Travail (CGT), was in honour of Amara Dioumassy, who was killed on June 16, 2023 while working on a construction project as a supervisor at the Bassin d’Austerlitz to improve the quality of the Seine.

Dioumassy, a 51-year-old father of 12 from Mali, was hit by a truck near the end of his shift….

“There were serious safety issues…” [said Lyes Chouai, CGT’s union delegate for Sade]…

The Bassin d’Austerlitz project, which cost 100 million euros ($109m) according to the mayor’s office, is intended to store rain and wastewater…

The city has promised that the Seine will be clean enough to host open-water swimming and triathlon events during the 2024 Summer Olympics and Paralympics…

… There have been at least 181 workplace accidents, including 31 serious accidents, on construction projects related to the Olympics, according to Nicolas Ferrand, director of SOLIDEO – a publicly-funded firm established to build the permanent facilities that will remain after the event…

Prior to the games, Paris 2024 Organising Committee and its partners established a “social charter” …