“After this, I can die in peace”: Ludovic, the TikTok garbage collector with 400,000 subscribers becomes the Olympic torchbearer

Cleaner for the City of Paris and TikToker with 400,000 subscribers, Ludovic Franceschet will carry the Olympic flame 200 meters, this Monday, July 15 at 8:30 p.m., towards the neighborhood from Belleville to Paris.

For eight years, this man with 48 candles has been working hard in the streets to ensure the cleanliness of the city. Today, he tells the Parisien that carrying the Olympic flame is ideal for putting a global spotlight on the work of his colleagues, that’ he names "the garbage collectors".

This Essonnian already shows his daily life through his Tiktok account @ludovicf_off, but carrying the flame does not have the same resonance. The influencer wants to defend "the future of a clean planet" and does not hesitate not to remember that "some poor countries do’have no cleanliness services". It is& nbsp;"the ambassador of living together at 3 000 %" and counting "shut your mouth"to the #SaccageParis protest movement on social networks, which complains about the dirt in Paris.

"For me, it’s the Holy Grail"

"For me, it’s the Holy Grail, I wouldn't give up my place for anything in the world. I still don't believe it, it's my quarter of an hour of glory, I'm truly privileged. After that, I will be able to die peacefully" he tells our colleagues. This opportunity is like the icing on the cake.

Sunday evening at the Paris City Hall, Ludovic met Yannick Noah, Anne Hidalgo (the mayor of Paris) and Tony Estanguet (president of the organizing committee of the Games Olympics). From then on, he was able to tame the flame by carrying it to the Saint-Jean room where it spent the night.

He says he is "completely nervous"

In any case, Ludovic was well prepared. "I'm conditioning myself. Between the station and my house, I have fifteen minutes on foot. So I practice by raising my arm, clenched fist, as if I were carrying the flame. Sometimes people think I'm an idiot!"

Although he's "completely nervous", it's not the 200 meters that will put him struggling with the 13 kilometers he covers every day.