The parents of the 120 students from Blancarde (12th) left Monday morning for a sea class in Frioul and repatriated on Tuesday evening, in a hurry and panic, did not take off. The Léo-Lagrange center infested with bed bugs, it was necessary to deal with all the cases, to treat their children victims of bites.
Three days of nightmare. Since she went to pick up her two children (CE2 and CM1) on Tuesday evening, in an emergency on the quay, this mother from the Blancarde school has lived in fear of the next day. “My daughter was not stung but she was marked by this return in the middle of the night, on the shuttle which brought them back from Friuli, many of them were crying. My son was stung 86 times. Bed bugs but also caterpillars. Because yes, there were also caterpillars. Moreover, we made him change bungalows, an hour following his installation. Which means everyone there knew regarding it… But in the other dorm, there were bedbugs too…“, she lets go.
Angry, like all the parents concerned, she had to chain doctor’s appointments and trips to the laundromat. “The next morning, I was there at 6:30. And I wasn’t the only one… We undressed them in front of the door, but we had to disinfect the car too. My son is on antibiotics and ointment, he suffers from terrible itching. He was bitten all over“, she continues. But for her, as for others, it’s the double penalty, “because I had no choice but to leave them at school this week. We treat this scourge as best we can. But is it the same for others? We have no guarantees. And we don’t know what will be decided next week.“
This mom knows it. She might count ona team of teachers and parents of students who knew how to manage the crisis on site“. More, “we are waiting for the rest, to see how it evolves“, she says. “Besides the bites, I found my daughter and my son completely distraught on Tuesday evening. They left the center at night, without eating following a day of kayaking, they took the boat in the middle of the mistral. We talked a lot, we took the time to explain. But I think this nightmare is not over…“
