The social results of the Paris Olympic Games are not as glorious as the sporting results

Paris JOYS – A red carpet, a podium and even the musical anthem of the Olympics. This Sunday, November 3, the Iéna Bridge is the scene of a ceremony with an Olympic feel, but which in reality aims to establish the with “ social » of the Paris Olympic Games, as you can see in our report above.

“In addition to the 64 medals that France has won, we have 3 to hand out”explains Paul Alauzy, coordinator of Médecins du Monde and spokesperson for the Le Revers de la Medal collective, to the crowd. “For having endorsed justice worthy of the state of emergency with authoritarian accents, the bronze medal for the President of the Republic
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According to the report published this Monday, November 4 by the collective, at least “260 places” informal living spaces (camps, shanty towns, squats, etc.) were evacuated before and during the Paris Olympics. More than 19,000 people were also expelled in Île-de-France between April 2023 and September 2024, an increase of 33% compared to the 2021-2022 period and almost stable compared to 2022-2023.

In view of the next editions of the Games, the hundred associations forming part of the collective recommend, among other things, “the systematic consultation of host populations, access to balanced, free and quality information, the organization much further upstream of the Games of open consultations with civil society actors”.

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