France evicts hundreds of migrants from Paris squat ahead of Olympics

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Charities have accused authorities of seeking to clear homeless people from Paris to make it look better for the Olympic Games.

Migrants wait with their belongings to get to another location, during the evacuation of France’s biggest squat, which has housed up to 450 migrants, most of them legal migrants according to associations – in the southern suburbs of Paris in Vitry-sur-Seine on April 17, 2024, 100 days before the Olympic Games.

Buses waited outside, ready to take them to the central city of Orleans or the southwestern city of Bordeaux.At one table, a woman official tried to convince another young man to try his luck in Bordeaux.But he too was attending training in the capital region, and so she directed him to another table where a colleague was in charge of accommodation near Paris.

Migrant and homeless charities have accused the authorities of seeking to remove the homeless from Paris and its outskirts before tourists arrive for the Olympics.

 

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