If there is so much to say about the organization of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, the department of Seine-Saint-Denis alone symbolizes the incompetence and fears of the authorities in the face of an explosive local societal situation.
180,000 free tickets for Seine-Saint-Denis
At the end of last March, Seine-Saint-Denis, presented as the “poorest department in France”, gave a great lesson in “republican equality” to the rest of France by being awarded for its residents around 180,000 free tickets for next summer’s Olympic Games.
In detail, Seine-Saint-Denis received 150,000 free tickets for the events of the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris, to which must be added 28,000 places for the opening ceremony on July 26 on the Seine. In total, as the - Paris site noted at the end of March, one in ten residents of Seine-Saint-Denis will have a free ticket for the event. The Bretons and others will wait…
The prefecture wants to “send young people” from 93 on a stay
But this rain of tickets generously offered to the populationequano-Dionysian movement in an attempt to buy social peace does not seem to reassure the 93 prefecture.
A month later, on May 4, the Bondy Blog explained that the Seine-Saint-Denis department would have reoriented the “Summer Quarters” system, in order to use it “to send young people from neighborhoods into the city staying outside the department during the Olympics”.
More precisely, the blog in question relates that the prefect responsible for equal opportunities for 93, Isabelle Pantèbre, would have sent a letter dated March 28, 2024 to the mayors and presidents of structures organizing stays in the department.
A very different policy in Hauts-de-Seine
And, a new development compared to previous years, the prefect would therefore have added a “stay component” to this “Summer Quarters” system. The Bondy Blog continues by indicating that the document mentions a “ particular attention [qui] will be included in the selection of projects offering stays outside the department.
Finally, note that this unique initiative in Seine-Saint-Denis has not yet been observed in any other French department…
In Île-de-France, in the department of Hauts-de-Seine (where several Olympic sites will host events), as part of the implementation of this same “Summer Quarters” system, it is even indicated that one “majority of credits” will be devoted to projects linked to the Paris Olympic Games. Why can we explain such a difference in treatment between the two Ile-de-France departments?
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