After the Chapel Gate, Stalingrad Square, Eole Gardens and Riquet Street in the XIX arr., crack users were evacuated Porte de la Villette. Residents are worried about this new fixing point. They call on the public authorities to find “worthy” solutions.
“Misery is rejected far from Paris, far from the most well-to-do Parisians. Why wouldn’t the XVI arrondissement inherit it? Or the fifteenth?“protests Kataline, a resident of the Quartier des Quatres-Chemins 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 the streets Riquet and Aubervilliers, in the nineteenth arrondissement of Paris and deposited 2 km further, Porte de la Villette. They settled in a square, which runs along the ring road. A green area frequented by the residents of the Porte de la Villette. A tunnel connecting Paris to the Quartier des Quatres-Chemins has been urgently walled up to prevent drug addicts from using it and going to the Seine-Saint-Denis.
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The Porte de la Villette, a new point of contact 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 place Stalingrad in Paris, then in the Jardins d’Eole before being expelled last June. They then gathered at the northern edge of the park, at the corner of Riquet and d’Aubervilliers streets.
In the aftermath of this umpteenth “displacement” of crack users, the inhabitants of the area, just like their predecessors, do not take off. Collectives of residents of the Quatres-Chemins met as a matter of urgency this Saturday.
“The neighborhood is disadvantaged. This is a new difficulty imposed on him without any communication with anyone. All this is extremely poorly experienced, some are worried about safety, others are angry. Basically, it is always the poor neighborhoods that are rather poorly structured and mobilized on whom the difficulties are postponed“, denounces Yves Dantec, member of the collective Sainte-Marguerite.
A tunnel and a square condemned
Another reason for discontent is the inability to use the tunnel and take advantage of the Porte de la Villette square. “Personally, I used to cycle through the tunnel every day. It is certainly not very engaging but it is a fairly natural way to go from the suburbs to Paris“, explains Yves Dantec.
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“The square despite its location in the middle of the ring road interchange was used by some poor families in the neighborhood, green spaces being few in Aubervilliers or Pantin. Today no one will go anymore”, he adds.
The mobilized associations call on the public authorities : “Stop moving problems systematically. In Aubervilliers and Pantin, we have no capacity to absorb its new problems. It is not easy for anyone but it is even less so for us, in an environment that is not very safe and that is very degraded“, the representative of the collective affirms, adding: “it is absolutely necessary to find worthy places for these people to undergo appropriate treatment“.
