The executive is looking for a solution to bedbugs. While many players – from airlines to railway networks, including cinemas, hospitals, educational establishments and businesses – have been the subject of reports in recent days, the executive held an interministerial meeting this Friday . Objective: establish “an inventory” and avoid letting psychosis spread.
The government is following the issue of bedbugs “very closely,” a government source told AFP. “We have gone from a current issue that worries the French to a subject on which the government is working and mobilizing to establish the findings and provide necessary solutions, either already existing or new,” she added. If the aim of this meeting was, according to this source, “to discuss with each other to find out where the ministries concerned were in their areas, in terms of findings and solutions”, government spokesperson Olivier Véran had promised that it would lead to “decisions and directions”.
This meeting comes at a time when many actors, such as Paris town hall, political oppositions, the presidential majority or the foreign press, are concerned about the explosion of reports in recent weeks. The executive, however, wants to be reassuring, hoping to contain the panic: Wednesday noon, the Minister Delegate in charge of Transport, Clément Beaune, affirmed that of the 37 cases reported to the SNCF and the ten to the RATP, none had been proven . The member of the government called for “not to fall into the idea of an acceleration or resurgence” of the phenomenon, or into “psychosis or anxiety”. A point of view shared by the Minister of Health, Aurélien Rousseau.