The president of Ile-de-France Valérie Pécresse (ex-LR) said she was ready to co-finance a care structure for crack users, jointly with the State and the city of Paris, on Saturday during a trip to the Eole garden which has become a meeting point for drug addicts.
"
I propose that the region, the State and the City of Paris get together around a table and that we finance a cracker treatment center
" said Ms. Pécresse, who was accompanied by the LR mayor of the 7th arrondissement, Rachida Dati.
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"
We must put in place medical and psychiatric means to fight addictions,
" and "
not just create emergency accommodation places
," said Ms. Pécresse, candidate for her re-election in the regional ballot scheduled for June.
She described as a "
fiasco
" the anti-crack plan launched in 2019, in which the region is not participating.
"
The first places of fixation were the shooting rooms and that does not help to get out of addictions
", assured Mrs. Dati, supporter of a support "
including under duress
".
The mayor LR of the 7th arrondissement blasted a city of Paris "
with absent subscribers
" and estimated that "
as president of the supervisory board of the AP-HP, (the mayor of Paris) Anne Hidalgo could set up a addiction control strategy
”.
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"
Two weeks ago, land and premises, without residents, were offered to him on the outskirts of Aubervilliers,
" assured Ms. Dati, deploring that this offer ended in a refusal.
On May 22, Anne Hidalgo denounced the “
short-term policy
” of the State to fight against the use of crack in the capital.
Asked about the skills of the region to finance such a detoxification center, Ms. Pécresse denounced a "
strategy of the discard
".
“
We're going to do it.
We are ready to put millions into a structure co-piloted with the Ministries of Health and the Interior.
Now you have to grab the outstretched hand
, ”she said.
Since mid-May, crack users have been contained by the police in the Aeolus Garden, a place drug addicts used to frequent during the day before migrating 500 meters further towards the Stalingrad district at night. .
The public garden is now open to them until 1:00 a.m.
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At 9:00 pm, I can't go home because it's dangerous,
” a neighbor testified.
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We have compassion and anger, but we are all psychologically affected
."
"
We refrain from taking action, we are on the verge of violence,
" added another.
Residents, cutting leaflets on a table, recalled that there were "
30 establishments welcoming children within a radius of 200 meters
", around the garden.
The drug addicts, them, held a more disillusioned speech to the elected officials.
"I
still have to have the will, an address
", testified a woman, the look neat in her red coat, fell into the crack ten years ago and who assures not to have seen her last two children than at the time of delivery.
“
It's a waste of time.
Drugs I need them every day for my concentration,
”added a man who, at 69,“
no longer believes in it
”.
“
But young people, yes, we can help them
”.
Rachida Dati "
will bring the subject to the Council of Paris and us to the government,
" assured Ms. Pécresse.