Paris Mayor suggests living alongside rats

2023-06-13 08:33:56

(MENAFN) Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo is thinking about establishing a committee to find out whether residents in the French capital should try to live alongside rats in peaceful cohabitation instead of trying to kill the vermin, a town representative stated last week.

“With guidance from the mayor, we have decided to form a committee on the question of cohabitation,” Anne Souyris, Paris’ deputy mayor for public health, stated at a conference of the Council of Paris on Thursday.

The recently declared policy signifies a substantial withdrawal from former procedures executed in Paris to challenge the town`s approximated six million rats.

The capital’s 2017 anti-rat strategy channeled USD1.8 million of its funds into a range of anti-rodent procedures, for example the setting up of sealed trash bins and the large-scale utilization of rat poison at thousands of locations across the town.

The vermin issue is thought to have been intensified by recent pension-reform riots in Paris, which witnessed refuse go unfathered on town streets for many weeks.

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