On June 11, French television station CNEWS reported that the city's Deputy Mayor in charge of health, Anne Souyris, said the new working group was tasked with developing an "ambitious plan to combat the development of rats".
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| Paris city environmental workers must regularly clean up dead rats in public trash cans. (Source: AP) |
The group plans to buy thousands of new bins, as well as install traps where necessary.
The effort, dubbed Project Armaguedon, will also propose measures to stop city residents from littering the streets.
Although rats do not pose a public health problem, they pose a threat to waste collectors because they are carriers of leptospirosis, Ms. Souyris said.
Not only Paris, New York (USA) and many other big cities are also facing this problem.
New Yorkers have seen rats running rampant on the streets since the Covid-19 pandemic.
In Paris, the problem has been exacerbated by nationwide strikes against raising the retirement age, which have led to rubbish piling up on the streets.
In 2017, a 1.5 million euro project was launched to reduce the number of rodents in the city.
The project included measures such as more frequent rubbish collection and traps. However, these measures did not have the desired effect and six years later rats are still roaming the streets of Paris.
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