The prefect of the Ile-de-France region, Marc Guillaume, and the Paris police prefect, Didier Lallement, justified Saturday in a letter to the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, the movement of crack users to a place ” temporary “, on the edge of the capital.
In their letter, Marc Guillaume and Didier Lallement argue that “the State assumed to organize (the) temporary solution“, Porte de la Villette; the presence of crack users on rue Riquet”in the immediate vicinity of many neighboring schools” being “untenable“.
In fact, last Friday, around fifty drug addicts were evicted from rue Riquet in the 19th arrondissement. and grouped in a square Porte de la Villette, 2 km further.
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They stress that, alongside the fight against drug trafficking, “l‘medico-social support for crack users has been greatly increased” with a “strengthening of medico-social outreach and the opening of 400 accommodation places“.
The Paris police headquarters “will ensure the security of the inhabitants of Paris and Seine-Saint-Denis”
They also justify the construction of a wall blocking a tunnel between Paris and Pantin, in order to prevent crack users from going to Seine-Saint-Denis. This wall is “essential protection for the inhabitants of Pantin“, they write, adding that the Paris police headquarters”will ensure the security of the inhabitants of Paris and Seine-Saint-Denis“.
Find lasting solutions
They intend to respond to criticisms according to which the State and the Prefect of Police do not deal with the whole problem of crack. Emmanuel Grégoire, Anne Hidalgo’s first deputy, asked for an urgent meeting of the competent public authorities, the Prefecture of Police, Paris town hall, regional prefecture, regional health agency. The town hall of Paris fears the formation of a new point of fixation like that of the Porte de la Chapelle, called “the hill of crack”.
We are at your disposal to work as quickly as possible
“We are at your disposal to work as quickly as possible on the proposals for places that you will send us as well as to the Regional Health Agency of Ile de France in order to allow their opening in the coming weeks “, replied the police and regional prefects in their mail.
This letter comes in a climate of tension between, on the one hand the town hall and, on the other hand, the police headquarters and the Ministry of the Interior, concerning the management of this thorny problem which has affected the north-east of Paris for many years. decades.
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