Cleanliness, and more particularly rats, is the first concern of Parisians, before security and the fight against pollution, according to an Ifop-Fiducial poll published on June 8. Indeed, in the capital, rodents are more and more visible on the surface and do not feel embarrassed by the human presence in certain green spaces, including the day, in particular in Champs-de-Mars, Porte de la Chapelle or in the squares of the central reservation on boulevard Richard-Lenoir. According to pest control companies, there are between 1.5 and 2 rats per capita in Paris, or about 5 million large rodents. Confinement would have slowed their reproduction, however, since the Norway rats would have had less food to snack on, since the bins in restaurants, parks and gardens were empty.
However, the critical threshold is exceeded, according to Pierre Falgayrac, educational engineer, health and safety expert *. According to him, when the number of rats
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