After Porte de la Chapelle, Place Stalingrad, Eole Gardens and Rue Riquet in the 19th arrondissement, crack users were evacuated from Porte de la Villette. Local residents are worried about this new fixing point. They call on the public authorities to find “dignified” solutions.
“Poverty is rejected far from Paris, far from the wealthiest Parisians. Why shouldn’t the 16th arrondissement inherit it? Or the 15th century?“protested Kataline, a resident of the Quatres-Chemins district straddling the communes of Pantin and Aubervilliers in Seine-Saint-Denis at the microphone of France 3 Paris-Île-de-France.
At the request of Gérald Darmanin, the Minister of the Interior, crack users were evacuated by bus yesterday from Riquet and Aubervilliers streets, in the 19th arrondissement of Paris and dropped off 2 km further, Porte de la Villette. They settled in a square, which runs along the ring road. A green space frequented by residents of the Porte de la Villette. A tunnel that connects Paris to the Quatres-Chemins district was urgently walled up to prevent drug addicts from using it and going to Seine-Saint-Denis.
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Porte de la Villette, a new point of attachment for crack users
In 2009, the users of this drug, cocaine hydrochloride, were evacuated from the Porte de la Chapelle, “the crack hill”, to find themselves at Place Stalingrad in Paris, then in the gardens of Eole before there. be deported last June. They then gathered on the northern edge of the park, at the corner of Riquet and Aubervilliers streets.
In the aftermath of this umpteenth “displacement” of crack users, the inhabitants of the sector, just like their predecessors, did not flinch. Collectives of residents of Quatres-Chemins met urgently this Saturday.
“The neighborhood is underprivileged. It is a new difficulty which is imposed on him without any communication with anyone. This is all extremely badly lived, some are worried about safety, others are angry. Basically it is always the poor neighborhoods that are relatively unstructured and mobilized to which the difficulties are transferred.“, denounces Yves Dantec, member of the Sainte-Marguerite collective.
A condemned tunnel and square
Another reason for discontent, the impossibility from now on to use the tunnel and to benefit from the square of the Porte de la Villette. “Personally, I cycled through the tunnel every day. It is certainly not very engaging but it is a fairly natural route to go from the suburbs to Paris.“, explains Yves Dantec.
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“Despite its location in the middle of the ring road interchange, the square was used by some poor families in the neighborhood, green spaces being few in Aubervilliers or Pantin. Today no one will go “, he adds.
The associations mobilized call on the public authorities: “Stop moving problems systematically. In Aubervilliers and Pantin, we have no capacity to absorb new problems. It is not easy for anyone but it is even less so for us, in an environment which is not very safe and very degraded“, says the representative of the collective, adding:”it is absolutely necessary to find decent places so that these people can follow appropriate treatments“.
