Mayor of Paris Sends Anti-Gay Marchers $100,000 Bill for Cleanup

Hundreds of thousands of people have been demonstrating in Paris against the French government’s plans to legalise marriage and adoption for same-sex couples.

Protesters travelled from all over the country for Sunday’s demonstration, supported by leaders of the centre-right opposition, the Catholic church and France’s Muslim community.

Police estimated the crowd at 340,000, making it one of the largest demonstrations in Paris since an education protest in 1984.

Organizers of a march against gay marriage in Paris have been left with a €100,000 ($133,000) bill for clean-up costs.

The bill has been imposed by Mayor Bertrand Delanöe after over 340,000 people protested against gay marriage in the French capital on Sunday (13 January). Marriage equality is being pushed by President François Hollande.

The money is to cover damages by the protestors to the grass on the Champs-de-Mars where they congregated at the end of their ‘March for all’.