According to an email seen by the New York Times, homeless people have been evicted from the vicinity of the Olympic venues and the Olympic Village.
During the year, the French authorities have evicted at least 5,000 people from the country’s capital, Paris, where the Olympics will soon be held.
Reported about it The New York Times.
According to an email seen by NYT, people have been evicted from the vicinity of the Olympic venues and the Olympic Village.
For example, in April the French authorities moved elsewhere 400 people from the Paris Olympic Village road in the Île-Saint-Denis area.
Most of the evicted are men, representatives of the French state Christophe Noël du Payrat told the New York Times.
According to the representative, France has launched a program where people are transported to other cities during the Olympics.
According to the authorities, no one is forced to leave, it is a voluntary program.
According to those being helped, people have been arbitrarily sent away to different cities without asking their opinion.
According to the authorities, the purpose of the program is to help homeless people find accommodation in homeless shelters outside of Paris,
However, according to those who are being helped, there have not been enough accommodation facilities for everyone.
More than 80 French non-profit organizations signed a statement this year criticizing the program, calling it social cleansing.
– In order to welcome all nations, we had to evict those who were already here, the organizations wrote, according to the France 24 news channel.
French Minister of Sports Amélie Oudéa-Castéra has denied claims of “social cleansings”.
The Olympics will take place from 26 July to 11 August. in Paris, France.