Anne Hidalgo ready to “seize ECHR” against project of consumption in 12th arrondissement

The mayor of the capital intends to block the project of the prefecture by evoking the “unworthy” character of the treatment of Crack consumers thus put into perspective.

Le Monde with AFP

The Iron Arm continues between the Paris town hall and the police prefecture, about the implementation of a Crack consumption location. The police prefect intends to move the users of Northeastern Paris to a railbrush of Bercy, which the Mayor of the capital, Anne Hidalgo, is firmly opposed. She intends to “grab the European Court of Human Rights” against this project, she announced Thursday, January 27, on BFM-TV and RMC .

The candidate of the Socialist Party in the presidential election complains to the Prefect Didier Lallement the “unincorporated on the security of the residents and persons who live near these places of deal and consumption”, and to treat The addicts in an “unworthy” way that has nothing to do with respect for human rights “.

One hundred and fifty to two hundred Crack consumers

In a released release Tuesday night , the police prefecture explained that it had, at the request of the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, spotted a place belonging to the SNCF in the 12 e arrondissement, in the south-east of the city, in order to ‘y “guide” the one hundred and fifty to two hundred Crack consumers since the end of September Porte de la Villette, in the 19 e arrondissement, in the northeast, in a square on the edge of The Seine-Saint-Denis.

The prefect had already passed from the agreement of the town hall to transfer these toxicomen from the Gardens of Eole (18 e ) , where they had been grouped in May so To relieve Stalingrad’s neighborhood (19 e ), towards this square. The new displacement announced, the third in nine months, must take place “after carrying out the installation of a secure fence,” he said.

Violence for the Residents

The announcement generated the general opposition of the elected representatives, from the town hall of Paris, led by a coalition on the left, of the town hall of Charenton-le-Pont and the department of Val-de-Marne, led by the right, and even the member of the constituency, Laetitia Avia (the Republic in March).

The Mayor of Paris claimed and obtained a meeting on Tuesday with the services of the actor state, with it, of the ” Crack plan “, which, between 2019 and 2022, mobilized 25 million d Euros instead of the 9 million initially planned. This money has allowed 450 drug addicts without bringing sustainable solution to their wandering, synonymous with strong nuisances and sometimes violence for residents.

/Media reports.