2023-09-19 14:43:39
The episode served as lessons for him. Accustomed to carrying her cell phone under her nose, Pauline experienced a little “trauma“last spring. At the corner of rue Horace Bertin and rue Louis Braille in the 5th arrondissement of Marseille, the young woman tripped over a mattress left on the floor. “I found myself on all fours on it, I was disgusted“, she rewinds. Not by her fall but by the risk of catching bedbugs. A close friend had faced the problem in his apartment. She knows that mattresses are sometimes left on the floor in the street following an infestation. “BySometimes, when people are nice, they put a little note on the mattress to say that there are no bedbugs“, remarks Pauline who has since stopped looking at her phone while walking.
What makes us wonder regarding the state of mattresses left on the ground in a city where part of the transport network was recently shut down following the detection of bedbugs on buses, where the central library was closed several days in fall 2019 for the same reasons. Asked regarding the presence of mattresses on the roads, the metropolitan councilor responsible for cleanliness, hygiene and illegal dumping, Jean-Yves Sayag, brushes aside the doubt: “most are infested, that’s why they are thrown away“.
If he does not have precise figures to give on the number of mattresses thrown into the street each week because of bedbugs, the elected official does not avoid the subject. “This illustrates the problem but unfortunately the people affected do not call the services concerned“, he regrets.
Mattresses recovered from squats or by the homeless
Considered bulky, a mattress placed in the street must first be reported to the Metropolis services before being thrown away with its collection number duly displayed. At least on paper. Broom in hand at the corner of rue Séry and boulevard Leccia in the 3rd, this roadman has never seen one. “Mattresses on the floor? I see more and more of them, he replies, but I have never noticed small posters with the number to remove them.“So much so that the infested mattress can take several days, or even.”several weekss” before disappearing moans a local resident, pointing to one of them next to a container. “This one has been here for a week“, she assures with the fear of being contaminated. “Never in life, I come close“, fears the resident.
The municipal councilor responsible for the fight once morest substandard housing and pests, Aïcha Guedjali, wants to be reassuring. “The bedbug does not jump or fly. To be infested, you would have to stay in contact with the affected area for a certain period of time.she says, worrying regarding another phenomenon: When infested mattresses are put on the street, they are sometimes picked up by homeless people or people who live in squats.“This is why the elected official invites people faced with the problem not to systematically throw away their mattress.”If you buy a new one but the problem has not been addressed, the new mattress will in turn be contaminated“, she explains, although aware of the price of treatment. “This is a real national problem. The State has planned action plans but we see nothing coming“, deplores the elected official.
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