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Ahead of Paris Olympics, police oversee evictions, leading to charges of 'social cleansing'

Posted on AllSides April 17th, 2024
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French police oversaw the eviction of hundreds of migrants and homeless people from an abandoned building in a suburb of Paris on Wednesday, the latest move in what one local charity has called "a social cleansing" ahead of the 2024 Paris Olympics. French news outlets reported Wednesday that roughly 300 migrants were ushered out of an old office building in Vitry-sur-Seine, a southern suburb of Paris, and onto buses that would transport them to other cities in France. The group was majority male, according to Agence France-Presse, though there were...

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