Just 10 months before the opening of the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics, the French capital is battling an invasion of bedbugs.
The tiny pests were first reported in hotels and vacation rental apartments across the city during the summer. Then there were sightings in movie theaters and, in recent days, there have even been reports of bedbugs crawling around on seats in both national high-speed trains and the Paris Metro system.
One metro train driver was dismayed to find some of the unwelcome guests in his driver’s cabin.
On behalf of Europe, I’d like to thank the US for this gift.
Wait until you find out where the US came from…
It doesn’t matter where the bedbugs came from, they are everywhere. Paris is an international destination; this is entirely Paris’s failure to manage it a problem that comes inevitably with that status.
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Wait, why?
He thinks bed bugs originated in the new world. (They’ve been present in Europe for 900+ years.)
If you want to blame the Americas for anything, blame syphilis. That wasn’t in Europe until the late 1400/early 1500.
Hate to burst your bubble but per the Center for Invasive Species “they are thought to have originated in Europe, the Middle East or in India, but moved across the world as humans did.”
https://www.thelocal.fr/20170413/are-american-tourists-behind-the-bed-bug-explosion-in-paris
You can downvote me all you want, but the French think the same: https://www.thelocal.fr/20170413/are-american-tourists-behind-the-bed-bug-explosion-in-paris
it just looks like you’re here spreading a lie, that’s all
I like how that article has zero data, just a couple anecdotes from French people who don’t seem to like America.
So basically all of them?