Since September 24 and the arrival of drug dealers and drug addicts in their neighborhood, residents and traders have been showing their fed up every Wednesday. They gathered for the first time on a Saturday to increase pressure on elected officials and demand long-term solutions from the government.
“Nothing changes … nothing!”, full of anger, Mohamed Bader details the demands of his collective Anti-crack 93, created last September following the displacement of dozens of dealers and consumers of crack (cocaine), from the garden of Éole (18th) to the door de la Villette (19th). These now occupy a square near the Place Auguste Baron, near the towns of Pantin and Aubervilliers. This is their umpteenth trip, after being evacuated from the Porte de la Chapelle in Stalingrad, then from Stalingrad to the garden. d’Éole.
At 2 p.m. today at the Quatre Chemin metro station (Pantin), Mohammed had joined a few dozen residents and other dissatisfied people to express his fed up. He asks for long-term solutions, for crack users as well as for residents.
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It is “a landless sector”, had however specified the prefect of police of Paris Didier Lallement. This place of evacuation had been proposed to Anne Hidalgo in early July when she decided to ban the Jardin d’Eole to drug addicts, a proposal that the mayor of Paris then rejected. LThe prefect had therefore acted, “At the request of the Minister of the Interior”.
Today at the Porte de la Villette, Mohammed and his comrades of the collective point the finger at the constant attacks and intimidation of drug addicts and dealers towards the inhabitants. “Even people who just drive by are not at peace”. This collective challenged elected officials who they believe are prone to stagnation. “Pécresse came here, Hidalgo to Éole, we wrote to Darmanin too, and we were received in the region. But nothing changes … nothing!”.
While a The tunnel in the Quatre Chemins district was even urgently walled up to prevent drug addicts from using it, the associations are calling on the public authorities: “Stop moving the problems. We don’t have the capacity to absorb them here. decent places must be found so that these people can undergo treatment“.
For his part, Stéphane Troussel, president of the departmental council of Seine-Saint-Denis “does not accept the chosen method of simply moving the problem to the doors of the department. Aubervilliers and Pantin are already experiencing a large number of difficulties which require the full mobilization of public authorities. “
“The answer must be twofold, both towards these sick people, drug addicts, and towards the inhabitants who want to live peacefully”, says Mounir Mahjoubi, deputy of the 16th district of Paris (19th district). “We need coordinated action to open places dedicated to the psychological and social follow-up of these people, and thus end with the open scenes that we know”. A position shared by rebellious deputy Bastien Lachaud, even if he deplores that “the majority does nothing, precisely the one to which Mr Mahjoubi belongs”.
Last September, the PS mayor of Pantin, Bertrand Kern underlined the “total ignorance“of the Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin concerning the”Parisian geography“. “This place is one of the poorest neighborhoods in France. With this decision, the Minister of the Interior tramples on local elected officials“.
The UDI mayor of Aubervilliers Karine Franclet and the socialist mayor of Pantin Bertrand Kern have filed an emergency appeal against this installation a few meters from their respective city. An appeal that the Paris administrative court rejected at the end of October.
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