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France Is Busing Homeless Immigrants Out of Paris Before the Olympics

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/11/world/europe/france-is-busing-homeless-immigrants-out-of-paris-before-the-olympics.html

The government promised housing elsewhere. We followed the buses and found a desperate situation.

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The government denies that the busing is connected to the Olympics. But we obtained an email, which was first reported by the newspaper L’Équipe, in which a government housing official said the goal was to “identify people on the street in sites near Olympic venues” and move them before the Games.

6 comments

gAlienLifeform

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Homeless people with French citizenship are being left alone entirely I'm sure /s

HobbitFoot

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As is tradition. Every country does this.

moistclump

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I remember Vancouver doing this before 2010 Olympics.

Drusas

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Welcome to being American, my fellow French, I mean, American friends!

autotldr

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This is the best summary I could come up with:

The French government has put thousands of homeless immigrants on buses and sent them out of Paris ahead of the Olympics.

But the Olympic Village was built in one of Paris’s poorest suburbs, where thousands of people live in street encampments, shelters or abandoned buildings.

Around the city over the past year, the police and courts have evicted roughly 5,000 people, most of them single men, according to Christophe Noël du Payrat, a senior government official in Paris.

But we obtained an email, which was first reported by the newspaper L’Équipe, in which a government housing official said the goal was to “identify people on the street in sites near Olympic venues” and move them before the Games.

“They promised us housing and social help,” said Yussuf Ahmed, from Sudan, who cleans airplanes at Charles de Gaulle Airport.

The men we met had left their jobs in Paris and boarded a bus hoping for long-term housing and social services.

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stewie3128

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Los Angeles used to send the drunks to a labor camp in the valley for the duration of the Olympics.