Hundreds of homeless people and refugees were collected from the occupied buildings where they lived for months before the Paris Olympics and sent to other cities.
Aid agencies have said authorities want to clear homeless people from the streets and slums to make the city look better for the Games.
Police evacuated hundreds of people from France's largest slum in a southern suburb of Paris, prompting fresh accusations from aid groups that authorities were trying to clear refugees, asylum seekers and homeless people from the capital ahead of the Olympics.
Located in an abandoned bus company headquarters in Vitry-sur-Seine, the slum was home to up to 450 people, most of whom had refugee status, legal papers and jobs in France but could not find suitable housing.
The evacuation, carried out by police in riot gear in the early hours of the morning, began as France celebrated 100 days until the start of the Paris Games.
When approximately 250 police and gendarmerie arrived, 300 people took their belongings and left the shantytown in Vitry-sur-Seine calmly. More than 100 more people left the building before dawn. Many of the building's residents were put on buses to be taken to the city of Orléans or the southwestern city of Bordeaux.
Many of those living in the derelict building said they did not want to leave the Paris area because they had jobs there.
Among the 450 people living in the slum, there were 50 women and 20 children. At least 10 children were attending local schools.
Last year, the number of people living in the slum doubled after hundreds of asylum seekers, refugees and homeless people were evacuated from another slum in Île-Saint-Denis, near the Olympic Village.
Paul Alauzy, from the humanitarian organization Médecins du Monde, has been providing health support in the Vitry-sur-Seine slum for three years. He is also a member of Revers de la Médaille (The Other Side of the Coin), a collective of charities and aid workers who have warned that the Olympics are affecting the most vulnerable homeless people in the Paris region. sözcüThis.
Alauzy said the collective condemned what they called “the effects of the social cleansing for the Olympic Games.” Alauzy said the clearing of groups of homeless people, or slums, has continued steadily over the past year.