associations take stock of “social cleansing”

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 has around a hundred associations.

The number of minors expelled has “particularly increased”: at least 4,550 minors have been expelled from their informal living space, three times more than in the 2021-2022 period (1,527), and almost twice as many than over the period 2022-2023 (2,637).

Exceptionally exclusive year

“We will have had an exceptionally exclusionary year for the most vulnerable people in the Île-de-France region,” says Paul Alauzy, coordinator of Médecins du Monde and spokesperson for the collective, who believes that “social cleansing” will remain as an “indelible stain on the window” of the 2024 Olympics.

With a view to the next editions of the Games, the associations recommend, among other things, “the systematic consultation of the host populations, access to balanced, free and quality information, the organization much further upstream of the Games of open consultations with the stakeholders of civil society”.