Plănițe: a 91-year-old woman refused entry to several nursing homes, her son denounces “institutional abuse”

They no longer make the front page of the French press, but bed bugs are still very present in France. As evidenced by the story of this 91-year-old woman passed on 76 currently. The apartment of this resident of Sotteville-lès-Rouen (Seine-Maritime) has been infested with bedbugs since the end of June 2024. A nightmare that began when Jean-Pierre Loutrel noticed his mother complaining of bites and itching.

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The apartment owner hires a service provider to eradicate these pests. Problem, since the beginning of summer there have been 5 pest control operations but the bed bugs are still there. “I systematically found them,” explains the 72-year-old, “Despite changing the mattress, the plinth and the clothes that were put in the freezer, nothing worked.

“The bedbugs drove my mother out”

But this invasion has many consequences. First: due to the presence of bed bugs, the nonagenarian's home service has been suspended by the provider who refuses to go to this resident's home even though a nurse is usually required to come every day. Jean-Pierre Loutrel therefore decided to request the placement of his mother in a nursing home.

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And here the bedbugs came to thwart the plans of the resident of Sotteville-lès-Rouen. 7 units out of 8 refused the 91-year-old woman, two of which justified it by the presence of pests. He's on the waiting list for the last one. “The bedbugs kicked my mother out. I'm getting to a point where I want to bang my head against the walls,” the 72-year-old man confessed to our colleagues, evoking “institutional abuse.” Now he hopes the killer's sixth pass will be the right one.