The government promised housing elsewhere. We followed the buses and found a desperate situation.

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The government denies that the busing is connected to the Olympics. But we obtained an email, which was first reported by the newspaper L’Équipe, in which a government housing official said the goal was to “identify people on the street in sites near Olympic venues” and move them before the Games.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    18·
    4 months ago

    This happened in London in 2012 and I’m sure in other cities when they hosted the Olympics too. Get all those scary, icky homeless people out of the way so tourists don’t have to remember that poor people exist in Paris.

    • madsen@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      4 months ago

      Yup. I remember it from when Atlanta hosted the Olympic games some time in the '90s. Despicable.

    • Dudewitbow@lemmy.zipEnglish
      7·
      4 months ago

      basically all hosts of olympic games try to sanitize the tourist experience when they win the bid. for non homeless actions for example, grauvre magazines were removed from convenience stores magazine racks for the tokyo games.