They demand from the State a health response to the question of crack in Paris. The town halls of Paris, Pantin and Aubervilliers, as well as the department of Seine-Saint-Denis, announced that they had seized, Wednesday, February 9, the administrative court to oblige the State to provide medico-social care for consumers. of crack, installed since September in a square, porte de la Villette.
The application for interim measures “useful measures” that the four communities say they have filed before the administrative court aims to enjoin the State to take “emergency measures to resolve the very worrying situation that we have been witnessing for months, Porte de La Villette”said Nicolas Nordman, the deputy (PS) for the security of the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, during the city council.
Medico-social care
The state must “provisionally and as a precautionary measure”to propose “emergency accommodation allowing medical and social care for drug addicts living in the 18and19and and 20and arrondissements of Paris and on the edge of Seine-Saint-Denis, or, at the very least, any useful measure to preserve the health and dignity of the persons concerned as well as their safety and that of the local residents.estimate the communities in a joint press release.
Since September and the movement of these 150 to 200 drug addicts to relieve the gardens of Eole (18and), previous grouping point, “the inertia of the state public authorities is obvious when they are competent both in health matters (…) only in terms of emergency accommodation or public order”still believe the communities.
1er February, the State services had announced the financing of 70 additional accommodation places for these drug addicts, corresponding to the number of drug addicts sleeping permanently on site, and bringing to 510 the total number of places financed by the crack plan.
At the end of January, the prefect of police Didier Lallement announced that he wanted to move this same group of drug addicts from the North-East of Paris, their historic district, to a railway wasteland in Bercy (south-east). He had given up, three days later, in front of the “virulent opposition” of the Paris City Hall, joined by the right-wing elected officials of Val-de-Marne.
Tense exchange between Lallement and Hidalgo
Present at the Council of Paris for current affairs, Mr. Lallement castigated the legal action taken by the City of Paris. “You cannot at the same time call for common solutions and, at the same time, explain that there is a debate in the courts. Quite frankly, I don’t understand anything anymore and I’m sorry.”did he declare.
“The thing is very simple to understand, we question the non-action of the State”replied M.me Hidalgo, sitting next to her. The tense exchange had begun when M.me Hidalgo questioned the action of the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, in this file: “The Prime Minister has arbitrated a position which consists in saying: “a global approach is needed”, and then, we have a problem since this solution is not supported by the Minister of the Interior. “We do not have the support of the police force necessary to maintain places in which we can both secure local residents and support drug addicts”added the PS candidate for the presidential election.
“I cannot, Madam Mayor, let you publicly question the Minister of the Interior”a “excellent minister of the interior who does his job”replied Mr. Lallement. “You have no element that allows you to judge his loyalty and you are not the judge of his loyalty within the government”said the prefect again.