2024-07-16 23:22:15
The French government has begun to relocate thousands of immigrants homeless outside Paris, in an attempt to improve the city’s image ahead of the upcoming Olympic Games.
According to a report by The New York Timesthese immigrants were relocated under the promise of housing in other localities. However, they often end up living on unknown streets far from their homes. known, or marked for deportation.
In the past year, police and courts have evicted approximately five thousand people in Parisaccording to Christophe Noël du Payrata senior federal official. These immigrants are encouraged to board buses to cities like Lyon o Marseilleswhich are located far from the city that will be the sporting epicenter in 14 days.
The president’s promise, Emmanuel Macronof showing the greatness of France at the Olympic Games contrasts with the reality of the Olympic Village, built in one of the poorest suburbs of Paris, where thousands of people live in street camps, shelters or abandoned buildings.
These types of actions, known as “social cleansing,” are not new and have been used by several governments before major global sporting events. In 2016, the High Commissioner for Human Rights, HIM on human rights, Navi Pillay, denounced a social cleansing in Brazil prior to the world from 2014 and the 2016 Olympic Games.
“They give you a ticket at random,” he said. Oumar Alamineoriginally from the Central African Republic. “If it is a ticket to Orléans, you’ll Orléans”. This situation reflects the uncertainty and lack of stability faced by many of these immigrants.
Government officials Macron They did not comment on the matter, although they have defended the program as a voluntary measure to alleviate the shortage of emergency housing in Paris, according to the report by the American media.
The French government’s strategy has sparked controversy, leaving many migrants in precarious situations and far from their support networks, questioning the priority of preparing for the Olympic Games on the basic human needs of a vulnerable population.
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