Europe 1 with AFP / Photo credit: LUDOVIC MARIN / AFP 4:42 p.m., January 29, 2024

Faced with requisitioned student accommodation and the evacuation of homeless people in anticipation of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, Rights Defender Claire Hédon announced this Monday that she had “taken up” the subject. According to her, there may be a risk for respect for rights and freedoms in this context. 

Rights Defender Claire Hédon announced on Monday that she had taken up the issue of requisitioned student accommodation and the evacuation of homeless people in anticipation of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games (July 26-August 11).

“There may be a risk for respect for rights and freedoms in a context like that of the Olympic Games, we are vigilant and we will investigate,” she told journalists in Paris, specifying that this self-referral also concerned “freedom to demonstrate” and “the use of artificial intelligence”.

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