To conceal the migrant homeless issue before of the upcoming Olympic Games, French President Emmanuel Macron has ordered thousands of homeless immigrants to be bused out of Paris. The Olympic Games Paris 2024 will take place from 26 July to 11 August.
Promised shelter elsewhere, the migrants living on Paris’s streets claimed to have ended themselves living on strange streets far from home or tagged for deportation.
President Macron assured everyone the Olympic Games will highlight the majesty of France. But the Olympic Village was constructed in one of Paris’s poorest areas, where thousands of immigrants and locals live in street camps, makeshift shelters or abandoned houses.
Macron’s government officials refrained to remark to the New York Times. They have claimed, however, that this is a “voluntary program” meant to help Paris with its acute accommodation shortfall.
The Macron government established ten temporary shelters around Paris last year since city officials claim there is insufficient refuge capacity for the 100,000 homeless migrants living in and around the city.
Macron’s government disputes any connection between the busing and the Olympics. First reported by the publication L’Équipe, the New York Times later acquired an email from a government housing official stating the aim was to “identify people on the street in sites near Olympic venues” and relocate them before the summer Olympic Games 2024.
Working with city officials, the Paris city police have expanded searches on homeless camps and abandoned buildings for those who have been evicted claiming they would help move them.
Many homeless immigrants were unaware that they were joining a government initiative to evaluate them for possible Asylum and maybe deport them.
Although the program has long run, the evictions have attracted thousands of fresh immigrants, many of whom are not qualified for refuge.
The homeless migrants have to dwell in shelters for up to three weeks following their arrival in their new towns and undergo asylum eligibility screening.
Those qualified can seek for asylum and get long-term accommodation. About sixty percent of those living in the temporary shelters, however, do not find long-term accommodation.
Most have been issued deportation orders, hence some lawyers advise individuals not to board the buses and instead to take their chances on the streets. “It’s an antechamber to deportation,” Paris-based attorney Emmanuel Pereira told the New York Times.
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