Paris wants more “shoot rooms”.
The capital already has one near the Lariboisière hospital in the 10th arrondissement, but the town hall wants to install four other consumption and rest rooms for drug addicts, to better support drug addicts and in particular crack addicts, this derivative of cocaine, which is particularly rampant among the poorest consumers.
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The creation of new rooms was authorized in 2019 by the Minister of Health, Agnès Buzyn to better support the some 5,000 regular users of crack.
According to
L
e Parisien
, two meetings are scheduled for the month of November in the presence of the police chief, Didier Lallement, the regional prefect, Marc Guillaume and the regional health agency.
The town hall would like to install these rooms in Les Halles in the 1st arrondissement, and in the 18th century, near the Jardin d'Éole and the Porte de la Chapelle.
The Chapel Gate already housed "
Crack Hill
" and was a savage gathering place for drug addicts until it was dismantled.
The mayor of Paris wishes to organize a citizen consultation on this subject, so that the inhabitants of the districts concerned can give their opinion.
"
Our goal is to reach the people who are on the scenes of drug addiction
", explained to the Parisian Anne Souyris, assistant to the Health of the mayor (PS) of Paris.
The Town Hall is also considering the creation of mobile units.
“
The goal is to position ourselves in places of consumption, to be as close as possible to drug addicts,
” explains Anne Souyris.