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Migrant transfers from Paris ahead of Olympics anger French mayors and NGOs

Migrants sleeping under a bridge in the Stalingrad district of Paris in July 2023. © AFP - Julien de Rosa

Mayors in rural and small-town France are increasingly angry over the transfer of migrants from the capital to their communities, which they believe is linked to clean-up efforts ahead of the Paris Olympics.

Serge Grouard, the right-wing mayor of Orleans in central France, went public Monday with his complaints over the arrival of up to 500 homeless migrants in his town of 100,000 people without his prior knowledge.

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