The side of the Paris Olympics they don’t want you to see
7 months, 3 weeks ago

The side of the Paris Olympics they don’t want you to see

The Independent  

Sign up to our free sport newsletter for all the latest news on everything from cycling to boxing Sign up to our free sport email for all the latest news Sign up to our free sport email for all the latest news SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. open image in gallery French gendarmes stand guard as migrants are evicted from a squat in Vitry-sur-Seine “On 26 April, the police arrived,” says Paul Alauzy, who coordinates Medecins du Monde’s medical watch. “Some of them have children in school in Paris,” says Utopia’s Charlotte Kwantes, pointing to the families gathered on the street. It’s not in the interest of people.” *** With two weeks to go before the Olympics began, there were still large groups of homeless people living in tent cities around Paris. “It’s magical,” Alauzy laughs, “because for a year they sent the people away, and just when the Games arrive they find it’s possible to have a place in the region of Paris.

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Thousands Displaced in Paris as Olympics Prepare for Games
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Thousands Displaced in Paris as Olympics Prepare for Games

Associated Press  

Nearly 20,000 people were displaced in the lead-up to the Paris Olympics from tent camps or shelters in the Paris region. The group Le Revers de la Médaille claims that 19,526 people were displaced from informal housing between April 2023 and September 2024 as part of what it calls 'social cleansing' by authorities. The report also notes that some people …

The 2024 Olympics were a success for Paris but a calamity for some of its businesses
6 months, 3 weeks ago

The 2024 Olympics were a success for Paris but a calamity for some of its businesses

The Independent  

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Paralympics tickets popular among Parisians as residents return after Olympic exodus
7 months, 1 week ago

Paralympics tickets popular among Parisians as residents return after Olympic exodus

The Independent  

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Paris Olympics 2024: France turned the Games into a citywide party for everyone.
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Paris Olympics 2024: France turned the Games into a citywide party for everyone.

Slate  

This is part of Slate’s 2024 Olympics coverage. I even loved the golf, which surprised me by being the Olympics’ most egalitarian spectator experience, all ticket holders equal in our dignified scrambling up the grassy hillocks around the course. “Paris Superstar,” read the cover of Saturday’s Libération, the left-wing daily that can usually be counted on for Olympic cynicism. Even …

Paris and the Olympics have changed each other during their summer fling
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Paris and the Olympics have changed each other during their summer fling

Associated Press  

PARIS — In French, there are no goodbyes. Initial grumbling about barricades and other intense security measures that disrupted locals’ lives — not to mention arson attacks on France’s high-speed rail network — gave way to choruses of “Allez les bleus!” or “France, let’s go!” There were uplifting stories galore for non-French fans, too. “Breaking the norms” became the unofficial …

Takeaways from AP’s story on Olympics security hitting minorities, others flagged as terror risks
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Takeaways from AP’s story on Olympics security hitting minorities, others flagged as terror risks

Associated Press  

PARIS — French authorities are making wide use of discretionary anti-terror powers to keep hundreds of people they deem to be potential security threats away from the Paris Olympics. Darmanin says he applied the movement restrictions and daily police check-ins to more than 500 people this year as part of France’s security buildup for the Games. Interior Ministry notes seen …

2024 Olympics security means minorities can’t move freely
7 months, 3 weeks ago

2024 Olympics security means minorities can’t move freely

Associated Press  

PARIS — They are Nabil, Amine, François and more. Interior Ministry notes seen by AP say security services foiled several alleged terror plots ahead of the Games, with Olympic soccer matches, an LGBTQ+ night club and France’s Jewish community among suspected targets. Paris’ chief of police, Laurent Nuñez described the restrictions’ wide use as “extremely positive.” “We must use the …

Paris Olympics set record for number of openly LGBTQ+ athletes
8 months ago

Paris Olympics set record for number of openly LGBTQ+ athletes

LA Times  

Jeremy Goupille shows off his nails painted with rainbow colors and the Olympic rings at the opening of Pride House, the safe space for the LGBTQ+ community of athletes at the Paris Olympics. “It’s not a place to be LGBTQ+.” While the Olympic Games have made giant strides in the years since — the 2024 Paris Olympics set a record …

Migrants and homeless people are cleared out of Paris during the Olympics
8 months ago

Migrants and homeless people are cleared out of Paris during the Olympics

The Independent  

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Migrants and homeless people are cleared out of Paris during the Olympics
8 months ago

Migrants and homeless people are cleared out of Paris during the Olympics

Associated Press  

PARIS — Carrying backpacks and small children, hundreds of people sleeping on the streets of Paris climbed aboard buses surrounded by armed police on Thursday, the latest group of migrants and homeless people to be driven out of the city ahead of the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympics. Activist groups and migrants have called the practice – long used …

AP PHOTOS: The Summer Olympics is remaking Paris
8 months, 1 week ago

AP PHOTOS: The Summer Olympics is remaking Paris

The Independent  

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Police and military secure the city ahead of the Olympic Games
8 months, 1 week ago

Police and military secure the city ahead of the Olympic Games

Associated Press  

The head of the Paris Olympics boldly declared that France’s capital would be “the safest place in the world” when the Games open. A cyclist argues with police officers near Le Louvre museum at the security perimeter set up for the Olympic Games, Thursday, July 18, 2024, in Paris. A woman speaks to a police officer at the security perimeter …

Paris police chief outlines security measures for Olympics
9 months, 1 week ago

Paris police chief outlines security measures for Olympics

The Independent  

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Paris Olympics: French authority foils planned attack on soccer events; accused claimed to be inspired by ISIS
9 months, 4 weeks ago

Paris Olympics: French authority foils planned attack on soccer events; accused claimed to be inspired by ISIS

India TV News  

The French security authorities arrested an 18-year-old accused of preparing for an attack on the spectators slated to attend the soccer games at the forthcoming Paris Olympics in July-August. The Paris Olympics organizing committee confirmed that security is "the highest priority of Paris 2024" and they are working in tandem with the Interior Ministry. We are working daily in close …

Pro-Palestinian protesters call on Olympic officials to limit Israel's participation in Paris Games
11 months ago

Pro-Palestinian protesters call on Olympic officials to limit Israel's participation in Paris Games

The Independent  

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Ahead of the Paris Olympics, police clear a migrant camp near City Hall
11 months ago

Ahead of the Paris Olympics, police clear a migrant camp near City Hall

The Independent  

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Ahead of the Paris Olympics, police clear a migrant camp near City Hall
11 months ago

Ahead of the Paris Olympics, police clear a migrant camp near City Hall

Associated Press  

PARIS — French police evicted migrants from a makeshift tent-camp next to Paris City Hall early on Tuesday, the latest clear-out of people without homes that aid groups allege is a campaign to beautify the French capital ahead of the Summer Olympics. AP AUDIO: Ahead of the Paris Olympics, police clear a migrant camp near City Hall AP correspondent Charles …

Massive policing for Paris Olympics to include security checks for some of the capital’s residents
11 months ago

Massive policing for Paris Olympics to include security checks for some of the capital’s residents

Associated Press  

PARIS — Special anti-terrorism measures being put in place to safeguard the unprecedented opening ceremony for the Paris Olympics on the River Seine will also apply to all buildings along the route, meaning people who work and live there and their guests will be subjected to background security checks, Paris police chief Laurent Nunez said Thursday. Those affected will be …

Police clear out a migrant camp in central Paris. Activists say it’s a pre-Olympics sweep
11 months, 1 week ago

Police clear out a migrant camp in central Paris. Activists say it’s a pre-Olympics sweep

Associated Press  

PARIS — French police evicted migrants from a makeshift camp in Paris a few steps away from the River Seine on Tuesday, the latest operation in what aid groups call a campaign of ‘’social cleansing’’ ahead of the Summer Olympics. “I was already scared but I am even more scared because I don’t know where to go,” said Boubacar Traoré, …

French police evict hundreds from abandoned Paris warehouse ahead of Olympics
11 months, 2 weeks ago

French police evict hundreds from abandoned Paris warehouse ahead of Olympics

Associated Press  

PARIS — With the Paris Olympic Games 100 days away, police carried out a large-scale eviction at France’s biggest squat in the south of the country’s capital. Last year, authorities cleared out migrants from nearby the Olympic Village, and many displaced people came here,” said Paul Alauzy of the humanitarian organization Médecins du Monde, who has been closely following the …

Police remove migrants from central Paris square ahead of the Olympics
11 months, 4 weeks ago

Police remove migrants from central Paris square ahead of the Olympics

Associated Press  

PARIS — French police on Wednesday removed dozens of migrants, including families with young children, from the forecourt of Paris City Hall as the capital prepares to mark 100 days to the start of the Olympic Games. Aid workers are concerned that the move Wednesday is the beginning of a broader effort by Paris authorities to clear out migrants and …

Macron to inaugurate Olympic village in a disadvantaged area transformed for Paris Games
1 year, 1 month ago

Macron to inaugurate Olympic village in a disadvantaged area transformed for Paris Games

Associated Press  

PARIS — When French President Emmanuel Macron inaugurates the Olympic village on Thursday, he will see a formerly run-down area transformed into an international hub for the Paris Games. But the area itself is one of France’s poorest, and it saw rioting last year after a police officer fatally shot a teenager of north African descent in another Paris suburb. …

As the Olympics loom, Parisians ask: Should we skip town? Games organizers work to win their hearts
1 year, 1 month ago

As the Olympics loom, Parisians ask: Should we skip town? Games organizers work to win their hearts

Associated Press  

PARIS — Before the Paris Olympics open and upend the French capital’s usual rhythms, retiree Pierre Schapira plans to hire a car and quit town. “It’s not going to stop you from entering or leaving Paris,” Nunez said Thursday to the audience of about 200 people, including some watching via video link in an overflow room next door. You get …

Paris City Hall plaza draws holiday visitors and migrant families seeking shelter as Olympics nears
1 year, 3 months ago

Paris City Hall plaza draws holiday visitors and migrant families seeking shelter as Olympics nears

Associated Press  

PARIS — The forecourt of Paris City Hall buzzes with activity this holiday season: Children spinning on a sparkling carousel, shoppers browsing a Christmas market, tourists posing in front of huge signs advertising the 2024 Olympics — and dozens of migrant families searching for a roof over their heads. About 50 families with children between three months and 10 years …

France’s Macron says a security crisis could force rethink of Paris’ huge Olympic opening show
1 year, 3 months ago

France’s Macron says a security crisis could force rethink of Paris’ huge Olympic opening show

Associated Press  

LE PECQ, France — The giant opening ceremony extravaganza that Paris is planning to hold on the River Seine to launch the Olympic Games could be moved if France is hit again in the run-up by extremist attacks, French President Emmanuel Macron said. “We are preparing an opening ceremony that is unique, which I hope will make the French very …

Activists urge Paris Olympics organizers to respect the rights of migrants and homeless people
1 year, 5 months ago

Activists urge Paris Olympics organizers to respect the rights of migrants and homeless people

Associated Press  

PARIS — Aid groups and social justice activists protested outside the Paris Olympics headquarters and appealed Monday to French authorities to protect the rights of thousands of migrants and others living on the streets as the Paris region prepares for the Summer Games. More than 70 nongovernmental organizations issued a letter Monday to Paris regional authorities, the Olympics organizing committee …

Extremist attacks wounded Paris. Here's why the city turned to the 2024 Olympics to heal
1 year, 8 months ago

Extremist attacks wounded Paris. Here's why the city turned to the 2024 Olympics to heal

The Independent  

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Next year’s Olympics are pushing Paris to confront crack cocaine use on city streets
1 year, 8 months ago

Next year’s Olympics are pushing Paris to confront crack cocaine use on city streets

Associated Press  

PARIS — Neighborhoods in northeast Paris have struggled for years with the scourge of crack cocaine and its use in public. Yet despite a surge in arrests and new promises of tougher security around the 2024 Paris Games, some residents question whether the newfound focus is just pushing users elsewhere instead of treating medical and mental health problems, a lack …

The City of Lies: How Paris wants to hide its homeless ahead of the Olympics
1 year, 10 months ago

The City of Lies: How Paris wants to hide its homeless ahead of the Olympics

Firstpost  

Paris is preparing to clear its streets as it prepares for the 2024 Olympic Games and this means getting rid of its homeless. From mid-March, the government began asking officials around France to create “temporary regional accommodation facilities” that can handle an outflux of homeless people from the capital, many of them migrants. Many low-end hotels that authorities use to …

Fans will need to pre-register for free tickets to Paris’ gargantuan 2024 Olympic opening ceremony
1 year, 10 months ago

Fans will need to pre-register for free tickets to Paris’ gargantuan 2024 Olympic opening ceremony

Associated Press  

PARIS — To pull off the most audacious opening ceremony in Olympic history, French organizers are now — literally — on the same page. France’s government, the organizing committee president for the 2024 Paris Games and the French capital’s mayor signed an 11-page security protocol Tuesday that for the first time publicly laid out some of the gritty details of …

Paris Olympics vows to carry the torch for LGBTQ rights after watershed of Tokyo
1 year, 10 months ago

Paris Olympics vows to carry the torch for LGBTQ rights after watershed of Tokyo

Associated Press  

PARIS — Organizers of the Paris Olympics, who gave rainbow colors to their logo Wednesday to mark the international day against homophobia, transphobia and biphobia, aren’t limiting themselves to promises of inclusive Games next year. As the French capital set out plans for a Pride House that will celebrate LGBTQ people during the Olympics and Paralympics, organizers pledged that Olympians …

Next frontier in France’s protests: Fake Olympic volunteers
1 year, 10 months ago

Next frontier in France’s protests: Fake Olympic volunteers

Associated Press  

PARIS — Retired and with time to kill, Bernard Gauvain wants to be a volunteer at the 2024 Olympics — but a bad one. The 68-year-old former agricultural consultant in southern France is part of an otherwise mostly hush-hush band of Olympic opponents who call themselves “un-volunteers.” Also anti-Macron — the president has ignited a months-long firestorm of French protest …

Disabled rights protests before Paris Olympics draw pledges
1 year, 11 months ago

Disabled rights protests before Paris Olympics draw pledges

Associated Press  

PARIS — Angry about decades of unmet promises, people with disabilities protested in France Wednesday by showing how difficult and frustrating it is for them to travel alone by train into Paris, delivering a stinging rebuke to government inertia before the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. President Emmanuel Macron, hosting a national conference on disabilities, conceded failures, noted slow progress, …

France under pressure over disabled rights as Olympics loom
1 year, 11 months ago

France under pressure over disabled rights as Olympics loom

Associated Press  

PARIS — Pascale Ribes and other campaigners for the rights of people with disabilities in France have an invite to meet the French president Wednesday. Ribes warns that instead of showcasing France, the 2024 Olympics risk highlighting the country’s failings unless there’s quick action to make the Paris Games and the host country more mindful of the needs and rights …

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