The document covers 350 tracks and is already reviving controversy.
A study published on Friday by Inserm gives a positive assessment of the two lower-risk consumption rooms, opened in 2016 in Strasbourg and Paris.
"They reduce risky injection practices, the number of injections in public spaces, the risk of overdoses, the risk of going to the emergency room and the probability of committing crimes," Marie told AFP. Jauffret-Roustide, sociologist from Inserm who coordinated part of this study.
The evaluation, which includes the opinions of the police and residents, also concludes that “there has been no deterioration in public tranquility” since the installation of the structures.
The number of syringes found in the neighborhood has been divided by three since the opening of the room, according to the study.
New shooting rooms in the 18th and 19th centuries ...
These rooms, whose experimentation expires in 2022, "probably constitute an efficient public health and tranquility intervention", estimates Inserm. What to support the projects of the town hall of Paris which would like to open new shooting rooms in the XVIIIth and XIXth arrondissements. “A meeting around the crack plan is to take place on Monday with the prefecture and the regional health agency. This will be an opportunity to come back to the subject, ”announces Anne Souyris deputy (EELV) of the mayor of Paris in charge of health.
In the Lariboisière district (Xe) where the SCMR was opened 5 years ago, opinions remain very divided.
"This study is biased and denies the reality that we live in everyday life: shooting scene in the middle of the street, fights, bloody syringes found on the sidewalk ...", enraged Arlette, member of the Riverains Lariboisière Gare du Nord collective.
“Of course, drug addicts have to be taken care of, but at a distance from inhabited places!
»Insists the local resident.
... or place des Invalides?
In Stalingrad (19th century), where mortar fire was fired last weekend against drug dealers and drug addicts, the very idea of seeing a consumption room open in the neighborhood makes residents shudder.
"If a room must be opened while the city installs it in an abandoned place!"
»Pleads Sandrine, a resident of Avenue de Flandres.
“In Paris there are no neighborhoods without residents,” retorts Anne Souyris, Anne Hidalgo's assistant.
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This week, the deputy (LREM) of the 16th district, Mounir Mahjoubi, sent a letter to the Minister of the Interior, the mayor of Paris and the mayor of the 7th to propose opening a consumption room in a district Parisian very sparsely populated and without commerce: the Place des Invalides (7th district).
Objective: to exfiltrate drug addicts from the Stalingrad district on the other side of the Seine to give residents a little respite.
“It is in the neighborhoods where drug addicts are that it is necessary to set up consumption rooms and rest rooms.
Otherwise, it has no interest, ”retorts the Health Assistant who points out that according to the Inserm study, 75.9% of French people are in favor of opening new consumption rooms, and 55, 1% would be ready to accept the opening of one of these rooms in their own neighborhood.