Mayor of Paris urges residents to ‘cohabitate’ with rats

16 Mayor, Anne Hidalgo, announced it intends to take a different approach to achieve a more peaceful state of coexistence with rats in the city.

“With guidance from the mayor, we have decided to set up a committee to look into the question of cohabitation,” said Anne Souyris, the city’s deputy mayor for public health, during a Council of Paris meeting.

In an announcement by Anne Hidalgo’s administration, a special committee has been formed to investigate the potential for peaceful coexistence between the city’s two million inhabitants and six million rats.