A short video, posted on TikTok on Sunday October 8, 2023, shows an insect resembling a bedbug in the metro in Lille (North). The transport operator, which carried out preventive cleaning and disinfection operations in the network’s trams and buses, indicates that the metro will in turn be disinfected in the coming days.
The short video, published on the social network TikTok less than 24 hours ago, has been viewed nearly a million times as we write this article, Monday October 9, 2023 at 4 p.m.
“In the Lille metro, a bug! I swear, it’s a bug.” A few words, spoken with a certain fear by the young woman who is filming with her smartphone, facing the scene.
When she zooms under the blue seats of the Lille metro, we see a living insect advancing on the ground. However, it is impossible to say that it is a bedbug.
“I thought I would be safe with the plastic seats”, comments a user. A video reminiscent of the one taken on the train between Paris and Lille and posted at the end of September.
Asked, Ilévia indicates that well before the publication of this video, “a cleaning, disinfection and disinfestation protocol has already been implemented for several days on all trams and buses, which were the first priority..
The transport operator also tells us that the surface treatment protocol used for prevention in trams and buses against bedbugs “will be extended to metro cars in the coming days”without indicating the exact date of this operation.
Beyond this preventive system, Ilévia points out that cleaning procedures are carried out regularly in metro and tram trains, in buses as well as in sales areas and stations.
Excerpt from Ilevia press release
Ilevia finally adds that the metro “has the advantage of not having textile seats and coverings which we know are conducive to the proliferation of these insects. Asked about the video published Sunday October 8, 2023 on TikTok, Ilevia did not wish to comment.
2023-10-09 18:59:58
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