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Source: MSNBC
Paris is heading for an Olympic-sized disaster
By Anna Richards | Match 2, 2024
Paris sets an unbeatable scene for an event the magnitude of the Olympic Games. The picture-perfect backdrop is already there, and Paris 2024's promotional videos include horses cantering past the fountains of an empty Versailles, breakdancing on the Place de la Concorde, which is uncharacteristically devoid of litter, and cyclists whizzing around the Arc de Triomphe, where cars usually sit in a fume-filled traffic jams. Behind this idyllic portrayal, however, problem after problem rears its ugly head.
Let's scratch the big itch first – bed bugs. During the autumn of 2023, it seemed that Paris, and France at large, had become awash with a veritable plague of mites. Freezers to decontaminate possessions became hot commodities on the secondhand website Leboncoin. Locals took to wrapping their train seats in bin bags to avoid becoming hosts to the bloodsucking little insects, and it appears that Paris's bed bug crisis still isn't under control.
Last autumn, Paris appeared to be awash with a 'veritable plague of mites'
- Reuters © Provided by The Telegraph
At much the same time, the city's bin collectors went on strike, leaving overflowing piles of rubbish on Parisian streets for weeks on end. It's perhaps unsurprising with all this insalubrity that Paris's rat problem has become a talking point, going viral on TikTok. The city's rat population was estimated at four million as recently as 2020.
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