The situation in France has become very scary

There is not enough shelter space for the 100,000 homeless people who live in and around Paris — half the total in France — so the government set up 10 temporary shelters across the country last year. The government denies that the busing is connected to the Olympics. But we obtained an email, which was first reported by the newspaper L’Équipe, in which a government housing official said the goal was to “identify people on the street in sites near Olympic venues” and move them before the Games. The heart of the Olympics is Seine-Saint-Denis, where roughly one in three people are immigrants — the highest percentage in the country. The government has spent billions redeveloping the area. The police increased raids on homeless camps and abandoned buildings last year. Working with city officials, they evicted people and said they would help relocate them. “They promised us housing and social help,” said Yussuf Ahmed, from Sudan, who cleans airplanes at Charles de Gaulle Airport.