Its release caused a stir.
The mayor of Orléans (Loiret) Serge Grouard (ex-LR) protested this Monday during a press conference about the arrival, according to him, of migrants “displaced” from Paris to the province “on the sly” in order to “clear the way” in the capital as the Olympic Games (OG) approach.
“It’s shocking that we are moving people more or less voluntarily, and it’s shocking that the mayor and local elected officials are not informed of anything,” he told journalists.
According to him, “every three weeks, a bus arrives in Orléans from Paris, with between 35 and 50 people on board”.
These arrivals of migrants - generally asylum seekers - or homeless people (SDF) from Île-de-France to the regions are part of a "system co-piloted by the Ministries of the Interior and of Housing,” replied the Loiret prefecture in a press release this Tuesday morning.
The government actually asked the prefects, in March 2023, to create new “regional temporary reception centers” in all regions, with the exception of Hauts-de-France, Île-de-France and from Corsica.
One of them is located in Loiret.
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