After Paris, Seine-Saint-Denis will be the second protagonist of the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. In addition to hosting numerous sporting events, the department will host the Olympic village of Saint-Denis, Saint-Ouen and l’Ile- Saint-Denis, as well as the media village emerging from the ground at Dugny. The opportunity to build new infrastructure in the poorest department of metropolitan France.
Seine-Saint-Denis will benefit from most of the public investments destined for the construction sites of the Games (1.1 billion euros), but the problem is knowing whether the population will be able to benefit from them in the long term, in this territory, where the elected are fighting every day so that a child born there, a person who settles there, has the same opportunities for learning, training, work, care and hospitality as others.
Once they leave, for example, the athletes’ village will be transformed to allow, in the summer of 2025, the delivery of 2,800 housing units, as well as 100,000 m2 of offices and services. The construction of new infrastructures must also make it possible to repair some of the department’s many territorial divisions. But will these investments benefit the current population? And will these temporary spotlights be enough to allow the department to recover from its many socio-economic delays?
“In thirty years, it is not to the Champ-de-Mars or the Trocadéro that we will go to see if Paris has been successful in its Games, it is to Seine-Saint-Denis that it will be judged”, believes Stéphane Troussel (Socialist Party), president of the departmental council, guest of this chat. He will answer your questions from 4.45pm.
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