'Social cleansing': NGOs blast pre-Olympic migrant evictions

Early Wednesday, police broke up two migrant camps in the north of Paris where a total of some 230 people had been squatting, according to the Medecins du Monde NGO, which said that such actions were multiplying as the July 26 Olympics start date approaches. "They've really accomplished a massive social cleansing just before the Olympics start," said Paul Alauzy at Medecins du Monde, who is also a spokesman for "Revers de la Medaille" (The Medal's Flipside), an association denouncing the games's social impact...