Ahead of the upcoming Paris Olympic Games, French police on Wednesday carried out a large-scale eviction at the country's biggest squat which had become home to around 450 migrants.
PARIS — With the Paris Olympic Games 100 days away, police carried out a large-scale eviction at France's biggest squat in the south of the country's capital. Authorities, including dozens of gendarmes, cleared out the makeshift camp at an abandoned bus company headquarters in Vitry-sur-Seine on Wednesday. The camp had become home to about 450 migrants, with images of the eviction spreading rapidly across social media.
Aid workers are concerned that the broader effort by Paris authorities to clear out migrants and other people sleeping rough in the city before the summer Olympics is troubling, as those evicted are not provided longer-term housing assistance. 'The squat was the biggest in France. It doubled in size in one year because of the Olympics.
Responding to a question about Wednesday's evacuation, French Sports Minister Amelie Oudea-Castera said she wanted 'to emphasize is that it has nothing to do with the Olympics.' 'These policies, they were implemented before the Games, they will be implemented after the Games,' she said. 'And we want to handle those difficult situations with the best possible humanity. This is why we work with the aid groups. We really want to make things as fair as they can be.
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