reeking

By Day 7, even with the backyard reeking like an industrial accident at a toothpaste factory, the tiny trio of terrorists was back in full force.

Protests arose, but were violently put down by police; a night or two of being crammed into a reeking jail cell discouraged turning out a second time.

Nearby, a visitor unloaded a carload of excited children and shrugged her shoulders at the reeking piles of trash.

Just over a month later, the little boy was dead, in a once-more squalid house, reeking of cannabis.

But hobbled in parliament and contested on the streets piled high with reeking garbage uncollected by striking workers, he’s being given a tough lesson, again, about French people power.