100 days earlier than the 2024 Olympics, the biggest squat in France evacuated south of Paris | EUROtoday

Published on : 04/17/2024 – 09:04

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100 days earlier than the Paris 2024 Olympics, the biggest squat in France was being evacuated on the morning of Wednesday April 17 within the southern suburbs of Paris, AFP journalists famous.

The operation, awaited for a number of days, prompted many homeless folks, who had discovered refuge on this deserted enterprise in Vitry-sur-Seine (Val-de-Marne), to depart the premises earlier than the arrival of the police forces. order deployed in numbers to dislodge them. Several associations supplied photographs of this evacuation.

Some 250 brokers have been mobilized for this operation, in accordance with the Val-de-Marne prefecture.

Suitcases in hand, containing all the consequences of their life in France, with frightened faces, the roughly 300 occupants who nonetheless remained left the place shortly after 8 a.m.

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Some of them had been residing in these premises for a number of months, unable to search out lodging in non-public housing or whereas ready for social housing.

According to the United Migrants affiliation, which commonly offers them with help, 80% of them are legally in France.

For a number of months, the Le Reverse de la Medal collective, which brings collectively associations serving to precarious folks residing on the road, has been warning in regards to the destiny of the homeless whose makeshift camps are being dismantled at a extra sustained tempo. strategy of the Olympic Games (July 26 – August 11).

With AFP