'NO ONE IS SAFE': Bedbugs torment Paris ahead of 2024 Olympics

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'NO ONE IS SAFE': Bedbugs torment Paris ahead of 2024 Olympics
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Apparent footage of the insects has gone viral on social media platforms such as TikTok.

Every year, hordes of tourists descend upon Paris with a shortlist of concerns: pickpockets, steep hotel prices, how to get skip-the-line tickets and the most polite way to decline a stranger’s offer of a friendship bracelet outside the Sacré-Coeur.But as the French capital prepares to welcome millions of visitors for the 2024 Summer Olympics, a different issue has caught the eye of government officials: bedbugs. Lots of them.

French Transportation Minister Clément Beaune wrote on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, that he planned to meet with transport operators to discuss the issue. “Bed bugs are a costly nuisance for households in metropolitan France, considering the expense of treatment and the psychological impact,” the agency wrote in its report. It added that bedbugs are not known to transmit disease when they bite humans, but they are associated with a lower quality of life, sleep disorders and mental health issues.

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