According to the Le Revers de la Medal collective, nearly 20,000 people were evacuated in Ile-de-France between April 2023 and September 2024, before and during the Paris Olympics.
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Almost a year ago, the Le Revers de la Medal collective made up of around a hundred associations (Catholic Relief, Doctors of the World, Emmaus, etc.) sounded the alarm.
This Monday, November 4, in around sixty pages, the collective draws up a damning assessment. He denounces the “social cleansing” associated with the Paris Olympic Games.
According to the Observatory of evictions from informal living spaces, at least “260 locations“informal living spaces (camps, shanty towns, squats, etc.) were evacuated. Over the 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.
The number of minors expelled has “particularly increased“: at least 4,550 minors were thus expelled from their informal living space, i.e. three times more than over the period 2021-2022 (1,527), and almost twice as many as over the period 2022-2023 (2,637 ).
Paul Alauzy, coordinator of Médecins du Monde and spokesperson for the collective believes that the “social cleansing“will remain as one”permanent stain on the window” from JO 2024.
We will have had an exceptionally exclusive year for the most vulnerable people in the Ile-de-France region.
Paul Alauzy, coordinator of Médecins du Monde and spokesperson for the Le Revers de la Médaille collective
In view of the next editions of the Games, the associations recommend, among other things, “thea 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 solve many problems, which it are social cleansing, gentrification and ecological factors“, adds the collective.
