Some residents of Clermont-Ferrand (Puy-de-Dôme) are worried about the proliferation of rats in the city in recent years.
The installation of the heating network, which continues until May 2023, has notably brought many pests to the surface, relays
La Montagne
.
A resident of Boulevard Lafayette confides that her residence is invaded and that she even found the body of a rat stuck behind her daughter's bed.
Asked by our colleagues, the deputy mayor in charge of public security tries to put things into perspective.
Jérôme Godard thus explains that Clermont-Ferrand has twice as many rats as inhabitants, a classic quota for a city of this size.
Hygiene services mobilized
The chosen one recognizes that the work tends to make rodents more visible.
But according to him, these animals also have a use in the public space.
As for the hygiene services, they carry out about twenty interventions per month.
Here again, Jérôme Godard specifies that this figure is not abnormal, especially since the agents are sometimes forced to operate several times on the same building.
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