The mayor of Orléans Serge Grouard (ex-LR) denounced on Monday the arrival of migrants in his city who would, according to him, be
“displaced”
in the provinces
“on the sly”
to make
“clear space”
in Paris before the Olympic Games this summer.
“Orléans is not intended to accommodate the crack hill of Paris
,” warned Mr. Grouard, according to which some 500 homeless migrants have been transferred from the capital to his city for almost a year without having been informed by state services.
“For lack of official information, I therefore crossed some figures collected from associations and the Municipal Social Action Center of the city of Orléans
,” he explained during a press briefing.
“It is thus proven that, every three weeks, a bus arrives in Orléans from Paris, with between 35 and 50 people on board.
This system seems to have been working since May 2023
,” underlines the elected official.
“All this is being done on the sly
,” he lamented.
A “social cleansing”
According to Mr. Grouard, due to a lack of emergency accommodation available, these people
“are put in hotels for around three weeks”
and it is then difficult
“to know what happens to them”
.
Other cities are concerned according to him, notably Strasbourg and Angers, he said, citing the press and certain associations.
Contacted, the Loiret prefecture had not reacted at the end of the afternoon.
For several months, associations have denounced a
“social cleansing”
of the Ile-de-France region, gradually emptied according to them of its most precarious populations living on the streets in preparation for the Olympics.
With the aim of relieving congestion in Île-de-France, the government asked the prefects in March 2023 to create new
“regional temporary reception areas”
.
The idea is to create around 500 places in these new structures in all regions, with the exception of Hauts-de-France, Île-de-France and Corsica, to “
direct people taken into care” there.
load during sheltering operations carried out in Île-de-France
.