Paris 2024 Olympic Games: “Orléans is not intended to host the crack hill of Paris”, the city's mayor denounces the transfer of 500 migrants

Le maire d’Orléans déplore la situation. MAXPPP – Alexis Sciard

Le maire d’Orléans Serge Grouard (ex-LR) a dénoncé lundi l’arrivée de migrants dans sa ville qui seraient, selon lui, "déplacés" en province "en catimini" pour faire "place nette" à Paris avant les Jeux olympiques cet été.

Orléans is not intended to host 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 the 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 done on the sly", he lamented. According to Mr. Grouard, due to a lack of emergency accommodation available, these people "are installed for around three weeks in hotels"< /em> and then it is difficult "to know what happens to them".