Posted on 09/29/2023 4:09:51 PM PDT by george76
Government is urged to implement action plan to address this issue before the 2024 Olympics
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With the Paris Olympics less than a year away, French authorities want to make sure the bedbugs don't bite during the games and have started a drive to exterminate the pests.
Social media users have been publishing footage of the insects crawling around in high-speed trains and the Paris metro, alongside a rash of online articles about bedbugs in cinemas and even Charles de Gaulle airport.
The reports have reached the highest levels of government.
"The state urgently needs to put an action plan in place against this scourge as France is preparing to welcome the Olympic and Paralympic games in 2024," the capital's deputy mayor, Emmanuel Gregoire, said in a letter to Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne this week.
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Everyone is panicking," pest control store manager Sacha Krief said. "People can really get depressed, even paranoid over it."
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My mom tells the story of living in NYC in a double-bungalow while dad was training in the Navy. They had some sort of bugs in the furnished rental.
One clear cold day they dragged everything out into the front yard in an attempt to kill them. Mattress, chairs, rugs, etc.
The lady landlord came by. My mom, not wanting to offend her, said it was an old Norwegian custom (my parents lived lived in Minnesota) to do this to celebrate winter and new beginnings and making things fresh.
Now of course I don’t recall if it got rid of the bugs or not. I think it did.
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