To close a hotel wing in Attica due to bed bugs, in the shadow of the “epidemic” in Britain, and especially in Francesay the Food and Tourism Workers (POEET).

“Unfortunately we have an appearance of bed bugs”, said the president of the Federation of Food and Tourism Workers Giorgos Hotzoglou.

“A hotel in the seaside suburb of Attica was forced to close a wing in order to proceed with disinfestation” he argued, in Open,

Referring to the bed bug outbreak in France and England, he said: “It is obvious that some of our guests, mainly from France, carried the insects, and unfortunately they also got stuck in the hotel.”

“I don’t know to what extent this is effective, but among other problems there has been this,” Mr. Hotzoglou emphasized.

“Exists big problem with mattresses in hotels. In the army we burned them, but I don’t know if a hotel with such a problem can handle it. They have seeped into the mattresses and it is a cost to change a mattress in a room,” he added.

As Mr. Hotzoglou notes, “large hotels periodically replace their mattresses. So far it’s a hotel that has a problem.”