Bedbugs are troubling the French people…and mobilizing state agencies
Bed bugs plague the French people, and they cause anxiety that the government is trying to dispel and contain. It manifests itself, for example, in classrooms being empty of students, public transportation users refraining from sitting, and its manifestations also include furniture thrown in the streets for fear that it might be contaminated.
Some reported, for example, that they saw bugs crawling on a train or cinema seat… Reports abound about these blood-sucking insects, but the authorities confirm that they do not express the actual scale of the phenomenon, as the uproar has been exacerbated by the spread of news about it on social media networks, with the approaching menstruation cycle. Olympic Games 2024.
The government is particularly keen to provide reassurance outside France, while Algeria announced “preventive measures” to prevent the spread of these insects.
The French authorities stressed that there is “no return” to the bugs, according to Transport Minister Clement Beaune.
However, bedbugs are actually present in the Elisa Lemonnier Secondary School in Paris, where 14 classrooms were recorded to be contaminated, according to a letter from its director to teachers on Friday morning, which was seen by Agence France-Presse.
A teacher, who asked to remain anonymous, noted that “there is a state of psychosis among parents and students.” She added, “I constantly receive letters from parents saying that they will not send their children as long as bed bugs are present.”
In total, seven schools were closed in France, and bed bugs were detected at various levels in 17, Education Minister Gabriel Attal told France 5 on Friday evening.
In Amiens, northern France, the Louis Aragon municipal library reopened its doors on Saturday, days after it was closed due to the presence of this insect in places designated for reading.
The city’s mayor, Brigitte Fauré, explained that a tracking dog did not detect any bugs after sterilization measures were taken, which allowed the library to reopen.
*State issue
The issue of the spread of bed bugs has become a state issue, as the uproar precedes the Olympic Games, which are being hosted in Paris, a few months ago. A government source confirmed after a joint meeting of the relevant ministries that “all ministries are mobilized to work on this matter.”
Marie-Christine Gesta (72 years old), who has been working for years to fight bed bugs that she discovered during her stay in a hotel, stressed that this noise is far from psychotic. In a statement to Agence France-Presse, the woman who began to check every place, even her shopping bag, said: “He ruined my life.”
Seeing these insects rearing their heads again after she had finally gotten rid of them “awakened bad memories” in Gesta. “Just thinking about it makes me itch,” said the woman, who lives near Van.
Preparations to eliminate bed bugs in a Paris store (AFP)
Fear is not limited to Gesta, it is spreading. Some people have begun throwing pieces of their home furniture that they believe are infested into designated waste sites, labeling them “bed bugs,” as shown in a photo of a sofa, mattress, and table posted by an account holder named “Masvarjay” on the “X” network (formerly Twitter).
American writer Alfredo Mineo, who lives in Paris, told The Guardian: “There are mattresses lined up in the street where I live, and they have small stickers on them warning that you should not touch them.”
*psychological shock
Psychiatrist Antoine Belisolo of the Henri Mondor University Hospital in Créteil noted “a mild mass panic, in which people who do not have bedbugs become anxious about their presence, sometimes with something of an obsessive side.”
As for Marie Evroy, director of the Eco-Fleet company and head of the National Institute for the Study and Control of Bed Bugs, she stated that those who were found to have bedbugs suffer “almost post-traumatic stress syndrome.”
She pointed out that the degree to which these people were greatly affected by this experience prompted her company to train its employees on “how to deal with customer stress.”
Bedbugs did not provide metro stations in Paris (EPA)
There was a large demand for sterilization services, whether from individuals or from public transportation that wants to reassure its users. For example, the public transportation network in Montpellier, southern France, published pictures on Friday of a “detection operation” in which an employee appears with a tracking dog.
Minister Clement Beaune promised to carry out a “massive spring cleaning operation” before the 2024 Olympic Games.
2023-10-06 14:13:16
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