the prefecture denies wanting to keep homeless people from the streets of Paris during the competition

No, the authorities do not want to hide the poverty during the Paris Olympic Games. This is in substance the message delivered by the prefecture of the Ile-de-France region, which assured Thursday December 21 that the State had not set itself the“zero homeless objective” on the street in anticipation of the competition.

It’s not “neither the wish nor the ambition” authorities with a view to the 2024 Olympics (July 26-August 11), underlined the prefecture in charge of emergency accommodation issues, specifying to a few journalists that it was working to unblock “additional places” during the Games to leave a “social heritage”.

Accusations of “social cleansing” unfounded by the authorities

“On the other hand, being able to offer quality places to people who are on the streets in Paris and keeping them in emergency accommodation, doing in-depth social work, we are working on that and we will try to do better during the Olympic period. But it won’t be coercive.”added the prefecture.

On October 30, the collective “The reverse of the medal” bringing together around sixty associations launched an awareness campaign on a risk of “social cleansing” streets of Paris in preparation for the Olympics. According to this collective, more than 4,000 people have already been evicted from migrant worker homes. Accusations which have not “no Sens”according to the prefecture, which recalled that 120,000 people were already taken care of on average each night in the region for emergency accommodation.