Migrants replaced… by homeless people. Many migrant families have been dislodged from a social hotel in Montgermont (Ille-et-Vilaine), near Rennes, to make way for homeless people in Île-de-France who will be taken care of in a “temporary reception area”, we learned from ociations on Friday.
These ociations specializing in emergency accommodation deplored “the haste and inhumanity” with which this rehousing had to be carried out under pressure from the public authorities, to the detriment of these migrants. Some have been relocated to other Breton departments even though they are sometimes ill, have children in school or have a job in the Rennes region, according to them.
The police had been dispatched to evacuate the Montgermont hotel to the families still present on Tuesday, May 16, the deadline set by the prefecture, according to the ociations. “We had to send these people out in a fortnight to make room for these other people from Paris. We are disgusted with the way it happened, ”said a volunteer.
Migrants back on the streets
Some migrants, for example, were rehoused overnight in Finistère, where they had only one night reserved. “Afterwards, they were sent back to the street. So these people came back to Rennes, and we don’t have the right to take them back,” says this volunteer. “An elderly lady, seriously ill, and her adult daughter are currently sleeping in a tent in Rennes while they were still at the hotel last week”, she is indignant.
As the Olympic Games approach, the government wants to encourage thousands of homeless people, mainly migrants, to leave the Paris region on a voluntary basis for various regions, arguing that the number of hotels ready to accommodate them. Requested, the prefecture of Ille-et-Vilaine had not reacted Friday at the end of the afternoon.