“Can we think about that the Olympic celebration would achieve success if through the Games, 1000’s of individuals sleep on the street each night? » | EUROtoday

Lhe Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games would be the greatest occasion ever organized in France. Designed to be an ideal widespread celebration, these Games additionally carry an unprecedented promise of social dedication to go away a legacy of a extra inclusive society.

However, in current months, the variety of individuals in road conditions and in very precarious conditions has elevated worryingly. More than fifty individuals died on the street in January 2024 in France, reviews the collective Les Morts de la Rue.

Across the nation, solidarity actors are warning each day in regards to the emergency lodging disaster and the rise in “homelessness”. Nearly 25% of recent arrivals in Paris are in a scenario of extreme starvation, specifies the report “Forgotten asylum seekers”, and almost 5 hundred younger individuals in minority appeals reside in unworthy residing situations. [demande de recours pour que leur minorité soit reconnue et leur permettant de faire valoir leur droit à être mis à l’abri].

To date, on the bottom, we’re seeing very worrying results of the preparation for the Olympic Games in Ile-de-France: pressured evictions of populations in casual and precarious housing conditions, removing of individuals from the streets or who We want to make public areas invisible (intercourse staff, drug customers, and many others.). Various research, resembling “Fair Play for Housing Rights” [2007] printed by the Center on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE), reveal that earlier editions of the Games have resulted in such important “social cleansing” results in host cities. To maintain its promise of a optimistic social legacy, Paris 2024 should be a unique version of the Games!

Social emergency

Because can we think about that the Olympic celebration could be absolutely profitable if, within the run-up to and through the Games, 1000’s of individuals, together with households and youngsters, sleep on the street each night? If 1000’s of individuals now not have entry to meals assist which regularly constitutes their solely meal of the day? If individuals in conditions of nice exclusion are now not monitored for his or her care and preventive well being actions? Can the celebration be joyful if 1000’s of individuals do not need entry to their elementary rights, together with shelter? What if we power them to maneuver away from Paris to make them invisible to the world?

Our collective The different aspect of the medal is sounding the alarm with the hope that the general public authorities and the organizers of the Games will lastly take inventory of the present social emergency and that we are able to react collectively.

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