Drownout France

Life with Terrorism

Poubelle. 07 Juillet.

When I visited France in the mid-90s, I noticed that the garbage cans in subways were all boarded up. You couldn't throw anything in them. It was quite messy. Made no sense to me.

Well they have solved that problem now. The problem was, in fact, bombs.

All the trash cans in Paris are simple, transparent bags. So you can see if there's a bomb I guess, and so there's less stuff to blow into frag.

But who was bombing Paris in the mid-90s? Algerians? Seems too late for that. If you know, dear reader, please save me the google search.

Posted by amol at July 10, 2002 10:47 AM