Allegations of “social cleansing” have been raised against organizers of the Paris Summer Olympics as homeless people, sex workers and illegal immigrants are taken from the city’s streets and sent to the French countryside ahead of the Games. ing.
Serge Gruard, the mayor of Orléans in central France, went public on Monday with complaints about the unannounced arrival of up to 500 homeless migrants in his town of 100,000 people, AFP news agency reported. report.
“It has been proven that every three weeks a bus carrying between 35 and 50 people arrives in Orléans from Paris,” he told reporters, adding that the city’s “deck” is being built ahead of the Olympics in July. He added that the purpose was to clean the area. And August.
Volunteers from the association were seen clearing a camp for migrant minors that had been evicted by police under Pont Marie. A camp for migrant minors under the Pont Marie on the banks of the Seine was evacuated by police. The movement was motivated by the rising waters of the Seine River, which has caused several floods, but was used by activist groups as an excuse to clean up immigrant areas ahead of the Olympics. (Telmo Pinto/SOPA Images/LightRocket, Getty Images)
New arrivals will be provided with three weeks of hotel accommodation at state expense, but will then be left to fend for themselves, Gluard explained.
Paris has long been a magnet for asylum seekers and migrants, primarily from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, with demand for short-term emergency accommodation far outstripping supply.
As a result, as Breitbart News reported, informal camps regularly appear under bridges and in vacant lots around the capital, and are regularly demolished by police.
Residents have been offered the opportunity to apply for asylum, and the government’s policy is to expel them from Paris and other parts of the country.
The number of illegal immigrants in a restricted area on the outskirts of Paris reaches 400,000 https://t.co/XMNN5SOHB4
— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) July 6, 2018
Asked about building a new facility near the eastern French city of Strasbourg, Florian Vallieras, deputy mayor of Strasbourg, said: “We have not been consulted about the construction or about the people who will go there.” ” he told AFP.
“On this point, I agree with the mayor of Orleans. It is a rather opaque aspect of what is happening,” she added.
In January, a major in Lavar, a small town near Toulouse in southwestern France, issued a public letter condemning the policy of deporting migrants across the country as “irresponsible” and “dangerous.”
Paris migrant camp cleared for 60th time since 2015 https://t.co/N9vDOdACG0
— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) January 30, 2020
“Six months before the Olympics, probably to make Paris look better and more controllable,” writes Bernard Carillon. “That’s not acceptable.”
In February, Rebel de la Médaille (Behind the Medals), an umbrella group of 80 French charities, announced a “social cleansing” of Paris ahead of the Olympics with efforts to exclude immigrants, the homeless and sex workers. criticized. .
The 2024 Summer Olympics, officially known as the XXXIII Olympic Games and commonly known as Paris 2024, are scheduled to take place from July 26 to August 11
AFP contributed to this article
