The French capitals Canal Saint-Martin is being dredged for the first time in 15 years – and the mysterious objects emerging from the sludge unmask the area’s secret lifeCurious crowds had gathered on the arched footbridges that criss-cross Paris’s favourite hipster haunt,the Canal Saint-Martin, craning to get a ogle at the oddities poking out of the mysterious brown sludge below.“Bloody hell, and it’s a giant dustbin,” said Marie, a local office-worker, and taking photos of the mountains of old wine-bottles,scores of office chairs, bikes, or rolled-up carpets,wheelie suitcases and street signs stranded in the muddy pit.
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Source: theguardian.com