Paris stinks! Fears of a rat invasion as garbage strike hits French capital

In the French capital, the garbage collectors are on strike, which means there is stinking trash piled high in the streets, politicians screaming at one another, and a likely invasion by … rats!…

“It’s shitty, it’s not pretty and it smells,” said Mathilde Boyer, 23, who lives in the southern 15th district…

For every person living in Paris, there are 1.5 to 1.75 rats, making the City of Lights is one of the most infested cities in the world, and prompting the French National Medicine Academy to issue a warning last July about the “threat to the human health” posed by rats and the diseases they can pass on to humans.

Des #éboueurs toujours en #grève, 5.400 tonnes de déchets non ramassées à #Paris pic.twitter.com/52ixeva0h5

— Guillaume Asskari (@Gasskari) March 12, 2023