The evacuation of homeless people from the French capital, Paris, has been accelerated. The police have launched a new campaign with the main objective of ensuring security for the Olympics starting from July 26 in Paris.
In several areas of Paris, illegal immigrants have camped out on abandoned buildings and on sidewalks. All of them are being evacuated to Lyon and Marseilles.
Migrants deported from Paris told The New York Times that they had been told they would be housed and fed wherever they were taken, but so far that promise has not been followed through.
Among France’s population of 70 million, the number of immigrants is 7 million. According to a conservative estimate by the authorities, the French government has to spend 40 billion euros every year on illegal immigrants.