If many French media have reported on the bedbug plague, the foreign press is also beginning to investigate this problem. And this, a year before the 2024 Olympic Games, during which tourists from all over the world are expected to come. No less than 15 million visitors are expected.
“Bedbugs attack Paris and fuel fears as the Olympic Games approach,” headlines the American television channel NBC News.
The infestation contributed to the feeling that “everything is bad” for the city before the Games, Sophie Marie Niang, who lives between Paris and Cambridge, England, where she is studying for a doctorate in sociology, told them.
“People set fire to the Olympic sites in protest during the riots and Paris is infested with bedbugs,” he added, referring to the riots that broke out in June after Nahel’s death. “This does not bode well.”
On the other side of the Pacific Ocean, the South China Morning Post Take note of the videos that abound on social networks on this topic. “Videos posted on social media appear to show small insects crawling on the seats of a commuter train and the Paris metro,” writes the Hong Kong newspaper.
The newspaper also addresses the case of cinemas, particularly the UGC, which claimed to have taken emergency measures after a spectator claimed to have been stung during a screening.
“A political controversy”
Whether it’s Sky News or The GuardianBritish media report that politicians are beginning to address the issue.
“The growing bedbug crisis in France has sparked a political controversy,” he emphasizes. The Guardian which speaks of a “wave of panic and disgust” that has “spread throughout the country”. […].
“Transport Minister Clément Beaune said he would call public transport operators next week to inform them about countermeasures and how to do more to protect commuters,” the media reports.
The Sky News television channel returns to the alert issued by Emmanuel Grégoire, first deputy mayor of Paris. The latter wrote a letter to Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne asking her to organize a conference on the fight against pests. The London media reports his words: “The State must urgently bring together all interested parties to implement an action plan in line with this plague, as all of France prepares to host the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2024.
CNN would like to point out, however, that Emmanuel Grégoire warned against “hysteria” in this regard, stating that the Olympic Games were not “threatened” and “constituted an opportunity for everyone to work together on this issue.”
Source: BFM TV
