Straight Line of the Day: So, How Is Paris Going To Eliminate Bedbugs?

As Paris Olympics Approach, French Authorities Launch Efforts To Eradicate Bedbugs
Fox News | September 29, 2023

Government is urged to implement action plan to address this issue before the 2024 Olympics

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.

“Everyone is panicking,” pest control store manager Sacha Krief said. “People can really get depressed, even paranoid over it.”

21 Comments

    • Serious history question: Was that Hitler’s question? Did he really send that? And the Nazi general in charge of Paris, as I remember, didn’t carry out the order to raze it to the ground. Because it was, like, 1944, and everyone knew the war was over.

  1. Ultraviolet light kills the bedbug and the eggs. I clean hospital equipment with a 99.99 kill rate spray, then move the equipment to an 8′ x 6’x4′ chamber, close the door and cook for 45 minutes with uv. We gifted a local Seniors Retirement home with mobile uv, wheel into room, cook for 15 minutes..zero virus or germs. Uv in the washrooms..ZERO deaths from covid or covid outbreaks..it works…

    • No I think he just saying their beds need to go outside, but the pics I saw they already had mattresses stacked up on the streets. I think San Fran is also stacking mattresses in the streets, but for different reasons.

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