This Tuesday, March 26, Abdul* (first name has been changed), has small eyes. Lying on his bunk bed, the young Bangladeshi gently rocks his newborn. The small family of four crams into a room in a hotel in the Olivet commercial area, on the outskirts of Orléans. Having left Paris “early” by bus, they were welcomed, like around twenty other homeless people, by the Imanis association.
“Every three weeks, we have a bus that arrives,” explains Nadia Sergent, regional manager within the association. On board: twenty to fifty homeless people, all on a migratory journey. This operation, which has been going on for several months already, was denounced at the beginning of the week by the mayor of Orléans, Serge Grouard (Ex-LR), who accuses the State of sending homeless people to his city "on the sly". to “clear up” Paris before the Olympic Games. The Loiret prefecture denies any connection with the organization of the Games.
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The “regional SAS” system was set up by state services in March 2023. Ten “sas” opened on the outskirts of Bordeaux, Lyon and even Orléans. The homeless people received are thus housed for three weeks. During this period, their file is studied and then rehousing solutions are offered to them, on a case-by-case basis.
If a third manages to obtain a relatively durable housing solution, “two thirds are directed towards emergency accommodation, such as 115, and most ultimately return to the street”, criticizes Paul Alauzy of the NGO Médecin du monde and spokesperson for the collective “The other side of the medal”. A report to see in the video at the top of the article.