Water in the Seine River had unsafe elevated levels of E. coli less than two months before swimming competitions are scheduled to take place in it during the Paris Olympics, according to test results published Friday.
Contamination levels in the first eight days of June, after persistent heavy rain in Paris, showed bacteria such as E. coli and enterococci beyond limits judged safe for athletes.
The report was published by monitoring group Eau de Paris one day after a senior International Olympic Committee executive said there were “no reasons to doubt” races will go ahead as scheduled in in a historic downtown stretch of the Seine near the Eiffel Tower.
My wife is pretty well-traveled and said she’d never go back to Paris, for it was one of the dirtiest cities she visited. Combine this with the bedbug pandemic they’re going through now and you literally couldn’t pay me to go.
You didn’t even mention the other infestation that are far dirtier and more disgusting than the bedbugs… the French.
Apparently the bedbug thing was mostly a Russian information warfare campaign.
According to Reuters, the issue is real but Russia certainly amplified the news heavily and tried to erroneously link it to Ukrainian refugees.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-disinformation-hyped-paris-bedbug-scare-french-minister-says-2024-03-01/