Over the months, the situation has become inextricable, Porte d'Aubervilliers (19th century). Now, nearly 2,500 refugees, men, women and children, survive in conditions of another age. In the midst of crack users - there are about 140 - in what has become a village of odds and ends. At the edge of the ring road, made up of makeshift tents and sheds protected by tarpaulins, it now extends to the Quai de la Gironde.
On the muddy ground, garbage is accumulating, and tensions are growing, in this huge slum. The fights become legion: evidenced by the large number of trauma that must now treat the teams of Doctors of the World, on site.
France Terre d'Asile, which also denounces an "unacceptable" situation, sometimes hesitates to go to the sectors where the tensions are most acute. "The situation is now untenable," said Mounir Mahjoubi.
In a letter to the Minister of the Interior, the deputy for the constituency asked for details of "the dates and the scale of the next shelter operations, the actions that will be taken to prevent the installation of new camps and the measures planned to guarantee the safety of the districts most affected by drug addiction ”.
"A state of permanent stress"
"Migrants live in a state of permanent stress," says one at Utopia 56, an association that helps exiles, and organizes accommodation in the evening for some of them with volunteer residents. "Between the back and forth from the dealers, the theft of personal effects, of cell phones, of which they are victims, the verbal and physical attacks ... It is dramatic. "
Promised "before the end of 2019" by the Minister of the Interior Christophe Castaner, the dismantling of this camp of shame should finally take place around January 20. At least the regional prefect, Michel Cadot, he assured him by inaugurating, a few days ago, a new reception and situation examination center (CAES) in the 18th century.
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But, Porte d'Aubervilliers, where the exiles who were unable to be taken care of during the evacuation of the gigantic Chapel camp, on November 7, referred, and the drug addicts who had taken up residence on the incident " crack hill ", itself emptied of its occupants by the police and monitored since day and night, the situation has become explosive.
"We can not imagine what we live, we, the inhabitants", despairs a resident. “This camp is unworthy, sordid for the exiles, heaps of rubbish litter the neighborhood. And crack users are everywhere. They even zone out of schools, in the halls of buildings, attack passers-by. "
With other inhabitants, he occupied, in November, for several evenings, the tracks of the T3b tram ... In vain. "We have been listened to, but I doubt that we have been heard," he sighs, bitter.
"There is no longer any investment from the prefecture"
"The situation has never been so outrageous," says Julie Lavayssière, coordinator of Utopia 56. "As there are plans to evacuate people, there is no longer any investment from the prefecture. Not even toilets. And we fear for the future: on this camp, 40% of people are no longer eligible for the CMA (Material reception condition): When they are taken care of during evacuations, they are found on the sidewalks for a few days later. It's a hellish cycle. There is no will from the public authorities. "
WHAT FUTURE FOR ADDICTS?
What will happen to drug addicts when sheltering migrants at Porte d'Aubervilliers? "An announced disaster", fears Anne Souyris, the assistant (EELV) to Health of the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo.
"It's not like we discover the moon," she gets annoyed. "They were driven out of crack hill without care, on November 7, then from the Porte d'Aubervilliers, on 28, and we see the result: they invest in the camps of exiles, roam the streets, hide themselves in the halls of buildings. Nothing is regulated, ”laments Anne Souyris.
Last December, the City, the ARS (Regional Health Agency) and the regional prefecture decided to inject an additional 1.2 million euros into the "anti-crack plan" adopted in the spring, so that they could be opened 200 accommodation places as part of the Assor scheme, with social support for drug addicts.
"The hotel rooms, without the slightest follow-up, that we have been offering so far are useless," sighs the health assistant, who claims that "these places are absolutely available before evacuation crack users. This is the meaning of the letter that I am writing at the address of the regional prefect. "