Crack in Paris: town halls of Paris, Pantin and Aubervilliers seize justice

Communities are asking the State to take measures “to preserve the health, the dignity of the people concerned”.

Le Monde with AFP

They require a health response from the State to the Crack question in Paris. The town halls of Paris, Pantin and Aubervilliers, as well as the department of Seine-Saint-Denis, announced having seized, Wednesday, February 9, the Administrative Court to force the State to a medico-social care of consumers from Crack, installed since September in a square, door of the city.

The application for referred “Useful measures” that the four communities say they have filed before the Administrative Court aims to order the State to take “emergency measures to resolve the very worrying situation at which we have been attended by Month, Gate of the Villette, “said Nicolas Nordman, the deputy (PS) to the security of the Mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, at the Municipal Council.

Medico-Social Care

The State must, “on a provisional and conservatory”, propose “emergency accommodation allowing a medico-social management of the addicts installed in the 18 e , 19 e and 20 e Arrondissements of Paris and on the edge of the Seine-Saint-Denis, or, at the very least, any useful measure to preserve the health, the dignity of the people concerned and their safety and that of residents “, consider communities in a common statement.

Since September and the displacement of these 150 to 200 drug addicts to relieve the Gardens of Eole (18 e ), previous point of consolidation, “the inertia of the state public authorities is then that they are competent both in health (…) than in terms of emergency housing or public order “, still estimate communities.

The February 1, State services had announced the financing of 70 additional hosting places for these drug addicts, corresponding to the number of drug addicts continuously on site, and bringing to 510 The number of total places financed by the Crack plan.

In late January, the Prefect of Police Didier Lallement had announced wanting to move this same group of drug addicts from Northeastern Parisian, their historic district, to a railbridge of Bercy (southeast). He had given up three days later before the “virulent opposition” of the Paris City Hall, joined by the right elected representatives of Val-de Marne.

/Media reports.