Paris takes on TRUMP: Construction firm has contract pulled over 'backing of Mexico wall'
PARIS officials have said they will drop the Swiss-French cement maker LafargeHolcim as its official supplier of sand for the capital's makeshift "Paris Plages" beaches over the firms willingness to help build Donald Trump's Mexican wall.
Paris officials are to drop construction company LafargeHolcim due to their support of Trump's wall
PARIS officials have said they will drop the Swiss-French cement maker LafargeHolcim as its official supplier of sand for the capital's makeshift "Paris Plages" beaches over the firms willingness to help build Donald Trump's Mexican wall.
The company has reportedly said it will supply cement for the border, which was a key election pledge of Mr Trump.
Bruno Julliard, Paris' deputy mayor, told the city council: "We will do without their services."
The council then unanimously backed the decision in a vote, citing Lafarge's readiness to work on the "nefarious" border wall project.
Paris uses more than 3,000 tonnes of sand to turn the banks of the city's famous river into temporary artificial beaches every summer, and has been buying its sand from Lafarge for 15 years.
Bruno Julliard, Paris' deputy mayor, told the city council: 'We will do without their services'
Mr Julliard added the decision to drop Lafarge was in keeping with the "ethical commitments that Parisians can expect from their city".
We will do without their services
Earlier this month, ecologist lawmakers pressured Paris' Socialist mayor Anne Hidalgo to cut ties with the cement maker after it offered to help build Mr Trump's border wall.
Lafarge CEO Eric Olsen told the AFP news agency earlier this month that he was ready to supply materials to "all types of infrastructure projects in the United States".
Trump team INSIST his Mexico wall plan has not changed
Trump wants to build a 2,000-mile (3,200 km) anti-immigrant barrier across the Mexican border
He said: "We are the leader in cement, so we supply all our customers. We are here to support the building and development of the United States."
Mr Trump's 2,000-mile (3,200 km) anti-immigrant barrier - one of the Republican's key campaign promises - is expected to cost at least 15 billion dollars (£12billion).