Emmanuel Macron welcomes the repatriation of “200 isolated people”, groups of wounded – Libération

2024-08-13 10:19:28

During a reception at the Elysée on Monday, August 12, the President said that the Olympic Games showed “the true face of France”. According to the calculation by the group “Change of medal”, more than 12,500 people will be expelled from April 2023 to May 2024, in anticipation of the competition.

“We have succeeded in the social legacy of the Olympics”Emmanuel Macron presented himself on Monday, August 12, during a reception in the gardens of the Elysée to thank the professionals gathered during the Olympics. “More than 200 unbelievers who were on the streets near the test sites now have a permanent home,” important information, Praise is helping them “great man’s work” of Ile-de-France prefecture and Regions and Interdepartmental Directorate of Residence and Housing (Drihl). During this speech, the president noted that the Paris Games made it possible to show “the true face of France”.

“The government dares to boast”strangled this Monday, August 12 nearby Release it representative of the group Utopia 56, which helps exiles and people on the streets. “Yesterday, we welcomed 98 people, including 27 children, to one of our accommodation locations in Paris. During the Games, young people had to hide and did not go to food distributions for fear of police checks..

On August 6, a camp set up by the group Droit au logement (DAL) with families and young people who were not there, for example, the police dispersed and took their tents. As an explanation Mediapartthese people have to wait until the next afternoon to give them a shelter solution.

“Keep poverty out of the world”

«Like the previous editions of the Olympic Games, Paris 2024 has put all the people who don’t fit on the postcard. for his part lament Antoine de Clerck, a member of the Refugee Food, from France 3. «In September, we will probably reach the 15,000 people who came out during the Games. it is encrypted.

The partnership between “The other side of the medal” has been resisting for many months “social harmony”intended to make people outside invisible and “that hides poverty from the face of the world”. In a reading conducted from April 2023 to May 2024, the coalition reported that “More than 12,500 people were evicted during 138 hours.

The group remembers that “In the event of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, only 216 permanent accommodation places were created for isolated homeless people who remain permanently in the immediate vicinity of the Olympic sites, while more than 3,500 people. [décompte dans le cadre de la 7e édition de la Nuit de la Solidarité à Paris en janvier 2024, ndlr] sleep outside every night in the capital”. The number is up 16% from the previous year.

The 200 “Great Strangers” mentioned this Monday by Emmanuel Macron mainly men aged 40 to 60, “at the same time on the road for about thirty years”information from Libe local area. They benefit from the 216 places mentioned by Utopia 56: small studios with a living room, a kitchen and a bathroom. Before the competition, 400 “Great Strangers” was recorded near the Olympic sites. It is not possible for the State to “Leave these people in these places, for security reasons”, ensure the territory of Ile-de-France.

In all, 252 people were cared for and benefited from medico-social support with associations; 170 refused asylum, according to figures from the State representative in the Paris region. Some, in a state of drug dependence, are diverted Assore device (Social and caring, rehabilitation orientation together), which offers hotel accommodation and social support. Others are directed to family pensions, which provide private accommodation, activities and common spaces.

The prefecture also denied the “social connection” that the accusations of making poverty invisible and confirm that at the end of the Paralympic Games, none of the people who benefited from this support will return to the street. However, they can, if they want, leave the premises.

Face it too “200 Points” put forward by Emmanuel Macron, the joint partnership “Transformation of the medal” for its part indicates that“Now there are 19,800 to do for all the others who are still on the streets in France”. In July 2017, Emmanuel Macron said he no longer wanted to “At the end of the year, have women and men outside.”