According to the Observatory of evictions from informal living spaces, 260 places were evacuated in the Paris region between April 2023 and September 2024.
More than 19,000 people were expelled from Île-de-France before and during the 2024 Olympics.
A still significant number of expulsions. At least “260 places” informal living conditions (camps, shanty towns, squats, etc.) were evacuated and more than 19,000 people evicted in Île-de-France between April 2023 and September 2024, before and during the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games, according to a report “social” drawn up this Monday, November 4 by associations.
“An exceptionally exclusive year”
According to the Observatory of evictions from informal living spaces (new window)260 places were evacuated between April 26, 2023 and September 30, 2024, specifies the collective Le Revers de la Medal, in a report aimed at denouncing a “social cleansing” associated with the Olympic Games. Over this same period, at least 19,526 people were evicted from their place of living, an increase of 33% compared to the period 2021-2022 (13,124) and almost stable compared to 2022-2023 (19,777), adds this collective which includes around a hundred associations.
The number of minors expelled has “particularly increased” : at least 4,550 minors were thus evicted from their informal living space, i.e. three times more than in the period 2021-2022 (1527), and almost twice as many as in the period 2022-2023 (2637). “We will have had an exceptionally exclusionary year for the most vulnerable people in the Ile-de-France region”deplores to AFP Paul Alauzy, coordinator of Médecins du monde and spokesperson for the collective, who believes that the “social cleansing” will remain as one “indelible stain on the window” from JO 2024.
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In view of the next editions of the Games, the associations recommend, among other things, “the systematic consultation of host populations, access to balanced, free and quality information, the organization much further ahead of the Games of open consultations with civil society actors”. “The simple fact of organizing the Games every year in the same place and favoring their broadcast online rather than inviting the whole world to go there for such a short period of time could respond to many problems, which it's about social cleansing, gentrification and ecological factors”adds the collective.
