More than 3,000 student accommodation will be requisitioned in the Paris region during the Paris Olympic Games in the summer of 2024 to accommodate the staff of the event, the Ministry of Sports told AFP on Thursday.
“The census carried out has already made it possible to identify nearly 18,000 places available during the Olympic Games, including around 3,200 in the Crous”, an organization which manages student accommodation in particular, said the ministry.
It is a question of housing “security forces, caregivers, first aiders, bus drivers or even private security agents”.
The ministry clarified that all students making their room available during the Olympic Games, which will take place from July 26 to August 11, 2024, will be guaranteed to find accommodation when the academic year begins in September.
For those who plan to stay in the Paris region during this period, they will be “offered relocation to another residence”, assures the ministry.
On Wednesday, a user had posted on Twitter a screenshot of an email sent by the Crous de Versailles warning that the student residence should be “empty of any inhabitant from July 1, 2024”.
Contacted by AFP, the establishment confirmed the authenticity of this email, indicating however that it was a “truncated version”.
“Our message specified the right to relocation in July-August if necessary and the guarantee of finding your accommodation in September”, reacted the Crous de Versailles.
“Students will of course be accompanied individually by our residence teams,” he continued.
Despite these commitments, the student union Unef demanded that requisitions be made “only on accommodation where students left voluntarily and without any requisition that would force eviction or relocation”.