**From The Telegraph’s Rebecca Rosman, in Paris:**
The French government is under fire over its plan to move thousands of homeless people out of Paris and send them to other parts of France for the 2024 Olympics.
Since March, the government has been asking officials around France to set up “temporary regional accommodation facilities” to house thousands of homeless people coming from the French capital, including many migrants.
The order, which applies to all of France except the north and Corsica, is intended to free up space in hotels around the Paris region that are currently being used as emergency accommodation, so that they can be used by tourists visiting for the games.
Maud Gatel, an MP with the centrist Modem party, says nearly 5,000 hotel rooms are currently being used as emergency accommodation in Paris.
But the mayors of towns across France are concerned about the plan, and their own capacity to take in people.
“We aren’t against providing housing for the homeless, but we need it to be under the right conditions,” said Philippe Salmon, the mayor of Bruz, a town of 18,000 people near Rennes.
Mr Salmon said his town has been asked to accept 50 people every three weeks from September until at least the end of 2024.
“We are already oversaturated,” Mr Salmon told The Telegraph, adding that there was no long term accommodation in place for those being transferred.
He also criticised the location of the government’s new temporary housing centre – an area along a high speed rail track on ground polluted with heavy metals.
“We want to make sure that people are being housed with dignity,” he said.
Olivier Klein, France’s Housing Minister, defended the government’s position this week, citing a social emergency.
“It’s a tense situation,” Mr Klein told RMC Radio. “Of the 200,000 people housed every evening, 100,000 are in Ile-de-France,” he said, referring to the region that includes Paris.
He added: “Our goal is to reduce the number of homeless people in the Ile-de-France region so that we can provide more local support in other regions.”
Maybe it would be time to rethink our priorities and not only in France of course, build infrastructures to host a sporting event or spend the money in trying to solve more urgent problems.
Like, how about helping these individuals reintegrate into society?
Humm .. what about the huge population of rats ?
And I don’t speak about bad humans. Real rats. They are everywhere !
And none of them are chefs , it is a myth. 😊
Why not paint them in invisible ink?
Isn’t this what they do every Olympics (and World Cup)
Athens built the Olympics over the old airport, and then it became a refugee center iirc
Better build brand new stadium, a new hotel or tiny city for athletes just to demolish it right after.
Another South Park episode becoming reality. Macron should be eating shit.
They want to get rid of the migrants…ahem homeless sorry, so the tourists can come for the games. I don’t know who I dislike more, the tourists or the homeless to be honest. Can they get rid of both ? That would be awesome
Capitalism doesn’t abhor what it creates, so it must hide it.
“We just take the homeless and put them somewhere else”
It’s always surprising to see some people only now realizing that Macron is a just another fascist with a good looking suit.
I mean 80 % of his own population litteraly hate the guy.
In France we just don’t understand why some people keepnseeing him as some kind of ” new jfk. “
Remember, the IOC is evil.
Why don’t they put them all to run and have Homeless Olympics for the amusement of us all?
Nah wtf 💀
It’s not even homeless people it’s illegal immigrants who live in tents near the Seine, they want to put them everywhere in the countryside
I have zero sympathy for the French people. This is what you get when you elect a Rothschild banker TWICE.
Why not build a new village for them and host them in new building. We could then that village olympique
Amazing how we can afford to spend billions of dollars on hosting an Olympics, yet can’t seem to scrounge up a anything for micro-housing.
How about getting the pickpockets out of the city instead?
I heard that once in my country the governor and the homeless had a fistfight because of this.
So no soylent croissant?
It’s normal. In Russia they were also moving bad looking citizens.
Well…it’s nice to know that it’s not just NYC and San Francisco that struggle with homelessness. Though, sad to see them get treated like this 🙁
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**From The Telegraph’s Rebecca Rosman, in Paris:**
The French government is under fire over its plan to move thousands of homeless people out of Paris and send them to other parts of France for the 2024 Olympics.
Since March, the government has been asking officials around France to set up “temporary regional accommodation facilities” to house thousands of homeless people coming from the French capital, including many migrants.
The order, which applies to all of France except the north and Corsica, is intended to free up space in hotels around the Paris region that are currently being used as emergency accommodation, so that they can be used by tourists visiting for the games.
Maud Gatel, an MP with the centrist Modem party, says nearly 5,000 hotel rooms are currently being used as emergency accommodation in Paris.
But the mayors of towns across France are concerned about the plan, and their own capacity to take in people.
“We aren’t against providing housing for the homeless, but we need it to be under the right conditions,” said Philippe Salmon, the mayor of Bruz, a town of 18,000 people near Rennes.
Mr Salmon said his town has been asked to accept 50 people every three weeks from September until at least the end of 2024.
“We are already oversaturated,” Mr Salmon told The Telegraph, adding that there was no long term accommodation in place for those being transferred.
He also criticised the location of the government’s new temporary housing centre – an area along a high speed rail track on ground polluted with heavy metals.
“We want to make sure that people are being housed with dignity,” he said.
Olivier Klein, France’s Housing Minister, defended the government’s position this week, citing a social emergency.
“It’s a tense situation,” Mr Klein told RMC Radio. “Of the 200,000 people housed every evening, 100,000 are in Ile-de-France,” he said, referring to the region that includes Paris.
He added: “Our goal is to reduce the number of homeless people in the Ile-de-France region so that we can provide more local support in other regions.”
**Read more here:** https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/05/27/paris-under-fire-plan-move-homeless-people-out-olympics/
Maybe it would be time to rethink our priorities and not only in France of course, build infrastructures to host a sporting event or spend the money in trying to solve more urgent problems.
Like, how about helping these individuals reintegrate into society?
Humm .. what about the huge population of rats ?
And I don’t speak about bad humans. Real rats. They are everywhere !
And none of them are chefs , it is a myth. 😊
Why not paint them in invisible ink?
Isn’t this what they do every Olympics (and World Cup)
Athens built the Olympics over the old airport, and then it became a refugee center iirc
Better build brand new stadium, a new hotel or tiny city for athletes just to demolish it right after.
Another South Park episode becoming reality. Macron should be eating shit.
They want to get rid of the migrants…ahem homeless sorry, so the tourists can come for the games. I don’t know who I dislike more, the tourists or the homeless to be honest. Can they get rid of both ? That would be awesome
Capitalism doesn’t abhor what it creates, so it must hide it.
“We just take the homeless and put them somewhere else”
It’s always surprising to see some people only now realizing that Macron is a just another fascist with a good looking suit.
I mean 80 % of his own population litteraly hate the guy.
In France we just don’t understand why some people keepnseeing him as some kind of ” new jfk. “
Remember, the IOC is evil.
Why don’t they put them all to run and have Homeless Olympics for the amusement of us all?
Nah wtf 💀
It’s not even homeless people it’s illegal immigrants who live in tents near the Seine, they want to put them everywhere in the countryside
I have zero sympathy for the French people. This is what you get when you elect a Rothschild banker TWICE.
Why not build a new village for them and host them in new building. We could then that village olympique
Amazing how we can afford to spend billions of dollars on hosting an Olympics, yet can’t seem to scrounge up a anything for micro-housing.
How about getting the pickpockets out of the city instead?
I heard that once in my country the governor and the homeless had a fistfight because of this.
So no soylent croissant?
It’s normal. In Russia they were also moving bad looking citizens.
Well…it’s nice to know that it’s not just NYC and San Francisco that struggle with homelessness. Though, sad to see them get treated like this 🙁
Yes remove the peasants out