"Merde" in Nice

Christian Mucha really stinks in France

Publisher Christian Mucha is a big fan of the Côte d'Azur. But when the heat is oppressive and the neighboring hotel also has feces picked up by truck, even he gets a bad case of the stinkies.(Bild: Christian Mucha)

He loves the country, he loves the language, he loves the people ... But Viennese publisher Christian Mucha just can't smell his neighbors anymore. Especially when it's oppressively hot, as it is these days. But that's not because of the people, but rather because of their legacies and the removal from the luxury mile that the magazine publisher once bought into at great expense.

The rich have had enough! And especially the Viennese celebrity publisher Christian Mucha, who (as already reported here) has built his own home in Nice, in the very best location. It plays all the pieces, leaving no wish unfulfilled for Mucha and his wife Ekaterina. Although, there is one thing that really stinks for the couple, who spend around three months a year there.

It stinks big time
After all, their luxury home is located in the immediate vicinity of the world-famous celebrity hotel Negresco. There, where guests fork out around 1,600 euros a night, it stinks. In the truest sense of the word. 

Even passers-by who just walk past the hotel can't stand being in the vicinity without breathing protection.(Bild: Christian Mucha)

According to Mucha, there are around 20 meters of hose laid through the street through which the hotel's faeces are simply pumped out.(Bild: Christian Mucha)

The stench is unbearable for anyone. Pedestrians are fleeing ...(Bild: Christian Mucha)

A tanker pumps the faeces out of the Hotel Negresco in Nice. According to Mucha, who is a direct neighbor, the stench is unbearable.(Bild: Christian Mucha)

"The Hotel Le Negresco - a gigantic traditional building in Nice that covers an entire city block - is the most famous hotel on the Côte d'Azur," Mucha explains in detail, "but when the hotel's drain is emptied every few weeks and the waste from the 5-star hotel is sucked into sewage trucks, the guests, the neighbors and passers-by suffer!" He continues: "Because the Negresco then turns into a stink bomb on the world-famous Promenade des Anglais for several hours."

"Merde" is disposed of by truck
As he wants to know, there is no "normal" disposal of faeces - and that in such an establishment ... "There's no modern ring main, it's done with sewage trucks that connect to the hotel's drainage system with meter-long hoses," says the publisher, who also owns a castle in Carinthia, and: "Then it stinks. Huge!" The hotel does nothing about it, nor does the city. "And of course the guests have no idea what will happen to them when they open the windows or patio doors of their rooms while the 'Merde' is being disposed of."

The rich have had enough: Christian Mucha created a luxury residence in Nice, in the immediate vicinity of the Hotel Negresco. There's just one catch: according to Mucha, the hotel's faeces are removed by cesspit truck. Severe odor nuisance included.(Bild: Christian Mucha)

So what is left for Christian Mucha to do? Well, we could really only think of three alternatives: either he enters into a legal dispute with the local hotel industry - not very likely. He finds himself a new place to stay - not really an option. Or (perhaps the best solution in the short term) simply keep the air on, hold his nose and close the windows during the period of odor nuisance ...