Four months after the “temporary” installation of a toxicomaniac camp, everything is blocked at the door of La Villette. The inhabitants oscillate between anger and weariness.
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Install addicted addicted to crack in a small public garden stuck at the edge of the ring road, on the edge of Paris and the Seine-Saint-Denis? It is “a solution that can only be temporary, which can only last a few hours or a few days,” the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, on September 28, 2021, before the members of Parliament. Four months after the door transfer from La Villette (19 e arrondissement) of the 100 or 200 consumers of this “poor drug” which wandered before rue Riquet, however, nothing has moved, and the residents can no longer.
They reaffirmed it by force, Monday, January 24 at night, during a demonstration that brought together a hundred from them in front of the “wall of shame”, the one erected at a speed, in September , to prevent drug addicts from taking too easily from Paris to Pantin. For all participants, only one hope: that the public authorities finally act to unlock the situation. “We also have the days, the hours,” said Stéphanie Benoist, collective 93 Anti-Crack. “There is an immense angry that it has been going on for four months”, either one hundred and twenty-two days, “said another official, the Communist activist Rafael Perez. Adding: “such things, it would never have arrived in the beautiful neighborhoods.”
In four months, the provisional has settled in the long term. Despite the cold, 100 to 150 Crack consumers always frequent the peeled square, buy this very addictive and cheap drug, and smoke them there. People in great distress, and sometimes aggressive. Many of them benefit from homeless home devices, but some sleep on site. All under the discreet supervision of some police vans.
“We removed the shelters, we left people”
In recent weeks, the Paris town hall has ceased its complete cleaning operations, wooden and sheet metal barracks appeared. Monday morning, they were destroyed by shovels, by order of the police prefecture. The general physiognomy of the site had “degraded”, “with a densification of the facilities” become “of the fixing points for persons under the right-of-way or in the lack of Crack”, justifies the prefect in his decree of 19 January. “Violence is observed on the site or in its surroundings, especially between occupants under the right-of-way or lack of crack,” he also notes.
“We removed the shelters, we left people, see for his part Rafael Perez. It touches barbarism, ignominy!” In addition, “if these people are cold, now they are going to be Forced to go squatter in the neighborhood, “he adds. François Dagnaud, the Mayor (Socialist Party) of the borough, is less negative. “These barracks hid various trafficking and prostitution, is he noting. All that allows to thwart the crash traffic and the violence against women is good to take. But it is of course very well below what is necessary. “
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