translated from Spanish: Hungry rats eat books valued at 200,000 euros

normally librarians are happy with visitors. However, the employees of the University Library of Stuttgart are not very good to talk to a group of visitors: since early this year, the rats have spread in the building, causing considerable damage. Since January, less than 8,000 books have been destroyed in the library of the University on the outskirts of the city of Stuttgart garden, advises the “Stuttgarter Zeitung”. It was a damage of about 200,000 euros.

Photo: AFP around of 200 meters of shelves were so contaminated with feces of rats that had to be removed and replaced, the report says.

The social, economic and judicial literature from the sixties to the eighties of the 20th century was affected. Meanwhile, the Exterminators would have the problem under control. Possible access for animals had been closed.

Photo: AP cracks in the facade, holes in the walls: in Neukirchen, Hesse, had to close five school buildings, due to the collapse. Across the country, many schools need to be renewed urgently. The recurrence of the plague of rats is not excluded: on the one hand, the building of the library need a renewal, on the other hand, revellers in the City Garden would leave waste and food and that way they would provide food to rats.

Photo: AP for this reason, the University had asked the city of Stuttgart, so far without success, that cleanse the Park more often. Currently, cited the non-teaching, once a week. In this note: plague rats starved devour books library

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