French police evict hundreds from abandoned Paris warehouse ahead of Olympics

Police carried out a large-scale eviction at France’s biggest squat in the south of Paris with 100 days to go before the Olympic Games

The camp had become home to about 450 migrants, with images of the eviction spreading rapidly across social media. “The squat was the biggest in France. It doubled in size in one year because of the Olympics. Last year, authorities cleared out migrants from nearby the Olympic Village, and many displaced people came here,” said Paul Alauzy, of the humanitarian organisation Medecins du Monde, who has been closely following the steady pace of evictions over two years.The clearance operation will continue over several days.

Advocacy groups working with the homeless and other vulnerable populations have been voicing their concerns for months. Mr Alauzy said he fears “it will just be a matter of days or weeks for many of the migrants to be sleeping rough on the street again”.

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