More than twenty French regions, including all those that runs along the Seine river, are on orange alert due to the rising water produced by the unusual rainfalls of this French winter.
The Rin, in the northeast, is also under observation, as it could go out of its channel next Tuesday while the Seine should reach its highest level this Friday, exceeding six meters, as it did in June 2016, when it reached its peak. highest level in three decades.
According to an OECD study, a rise in the Seine like that of 1910 could today affect 5 million Parisians and cause losses of up to 30 million euros. In 2016, for example, expenses exceeded 1,000 million, according to the same study, which also reports two deaths and more than 17,000 evacuees.
There are also those who take advantage of the rise of the river these days in Paris.
Mohamed Abrouche, sports fisherman, walks happier than ever: "this type of phenomena causes many dead fish, product of the current and the waste that transports the water and we are fishing enormous catfish". From his pocket he takes out his mobile phone full of photos of some fish that would stand on his shoulder and that he has been capturing for six days.
