This will perhaps reassure the most entomophobic travelers. After the presence of bedbugs was reported on Wednesday in the cabin of a driver on line 8 of the Paris metro, the entire train was removed from circulation to be examined. However, according to the RATP, which spoke to AFP this Friday, “the results of this expertise are negative: no presence of bedbugs was noted on the train. »
Good news for the company’s employees and for travelers which comes in addition to the announcement, that same day, from the SNCF which assures that “after inspection, no proven case of bedbugs was found. confirmed in recent days on board TGV.” Several publications on social networks put forward reports on the trains of the railway company.
Clément Beaune brings together transport operators
These insects, which disappeared from daily life in the 1950s, and which have been making a comeback for some time in Île-de-France, nevertheless remain a real subject of public health, to the point that the Paris City Hall demanded from the government on Thursday “an action plan” against bedbugs, expressing alarm at a “significant resurgence” of this parasitic species.
A subject that the government seems to want to take in hand, given the announcement made this Thursday by the Minister for Transport, Clément Beaune, on the social network transport, to inform on the actions undertaken and act more in the service of travelers. To reassure and protect. »