“No to expulsions”: nearly a hundred students demonstrated on Saturday in front of the Ministry of Sports against the requisition of Crous housing during the Olympic Games. “Oudea, the Crous is not yours! “, they chanted, considering themselves “in the dark” and “abandoned”.
The demonstrators gathered around 2 p.m. in front of the Ministry of Sports led by Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, at the call of a collective called “La Rescrous” and several unions, including the Student Union, Unef and Solidaires. .
The Student Union is present at the rally against the expulsion of students for the Olympics and supports the mobilization of @larescrous. Since November, no concrete rehousing solution has been given to the students concerned. Stop the requisitions! pic.twitter.com/QlKlFb45OX
— L’Union Étudiante (@unionetudiante_) April 6, 2024
On the occasion of the Games in Paris, twelve Crous residences must be requisitioned this summer. They house around 3,000 students during the academic year and must temporarily accommodate firefighters, caregivers, law enforcement and civil security.
“The Crous will evict and relocate further away”
The public authorities estimate that 30% of rooms remain empty each summer. In a “progress update” on April 4, the Crous ensures that it has sent a questionnaire to the students benefiting from this Crous accommodation and received 2,300 responses, including 1,448 requests for rehousing at this stage. Those affected will receive compensation of 100 euros and two places to attend the Games. The first moves are due to begin next week and will be “taken care of”.
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“The Crous will evict and relocate further away. Except that students still do not know where they will go or when, in the anxiety-provoking context of exam periods. They are in the dark and afraid,” assured Hugo Getas, 22, one of the members of the collective, “it’s unfair, it’s still a precarious population forced to make efforts.” Some “have summer jobs, internships, work-study programs”, and will have to move away or even “take time off to move”, he adds.
Maxime Dupont, 22 years old, will for example have to “move before June 30 but take the architecture diploma on the 28th”. He will not “ask for rehousing” because he believes that he “does not have to leave”. “We don't know if tomorrow the State will evict students by using public force,” even wonders Félix Stive, administrator at the Crous de Paris for the Student Union.