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Paris 2024: associations denounce the sending of 5,200 migrants to the region
Paris 2024: associations denounce the sending of 5,200 migrants to the region
(France 2)
According to figures from the regional prefecture, more than 5,000 people in precarious situations, mainly migrants, were moved from Paris to other regions. Associations denounce social cleansing.
Dozens of migrants and homeless people were displaced from Île-de-France to the outskirts of Orléans, in Loiret. Last March, 26 people were sent to a hotel serving as a regional airlock, due to the saturation of emergency accommodation in the capital. Had they been transferred because of the Olympics? The Loiret prefecture then refuted the idea of clearing out Paris, recalls the 8 o’clock news from France 2, Monday June 3. However, according to a collective of associations and a report from the Île-de-France prefecture revealed by franceinfo, 5,200 migrants and 12,500 people in precarious situations have been expelled from the capital since April 2023.
Sarah had no choice but to leave Paris. She evokes a tense situation with the arrival of the Olympic Games. “I was advised to change region, because I insisted on calling the social service, 115. They told me that there is a lot of congestion because of the Olympics”she explains.
