An evacuation operation for crack users installed near the Eole gardens in Paris is underway this Friday morning. The Paris police chief, “at the request of the Minister of the Interior, decided to evacuate drug addicts from the Jardins d’Eole and Stalingrad sectors”, indicates the Prefecture of Police in a press release. They will be grouped together at Porte de la Villette, near Place Auguste Baron.
At around 10:00 am this Friday morning, the police began to regroup the people installed in tents, rue Riquet, in the 19th arrondissement, France Bleu Paris found on site. Drug addicts will then be taken by bus to the square at Place Auguste Baron, Porte de la Villette, “in a sector without residents in the immediate vicinity”.
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This place had already been mentioned this summer to bring together consumers, after the evacuation in June of the Jardins d’Eole by the town hall of Paris. This is a temporary solution, specifies the prefect of police. “It is necessary because it involves an occupation of the public space less penalizing than that of the rue Riquet. It is decided in the expectation of the concrete installation of the reception rooms by the town hall of Paris”. The situation had become untenable for the residents who were subjected to assaults and witnessed fights on a daily basis.
A security system will be put in place near the Place Auguste Baron, promises the police headquarters. A device will also be deployed in the sectors of the gardens of Éole and Stalingrad. “in order to avoid any relocation of the drug addict population”.
