The atmosphere is heavy.
This Saturday afternoon, there are hundreds of crack addicts to haunt the Jardins d'Eole (18th and 19th centuries).
Men, inert, lie on the lawns of this former green lung of east Paris, in full sun.
Women scream, violent.
Some brandish bottles of beer or wine, insulting their mouths ...
They are between 1000 and 1500 to squat every day this hell.
We buy drugs, alcohol, we consume.
Some even scratch the ground to find these little bits of narcotics.
Here, we call it "the chicken syndrome": this act of plowing the ground with your fingernails, to recover, at any cost, pieces of crack cakes.
And this Saturday, many of them are scratching the flower beds, looking for a few nuggets that they quickly burn in their mouths.
A scene attended by Valérie Pécresse, the president (Libres!) Of the Ile-de-France region, campaigning for her re-election.
At his side, Rachida Dati, the LR leader in Paris.
The two elected officials with strained relations, however, agree perfectly on this issue.
"We really have to act"
And this Saturday, they put forward common proposals. “We can't go on like this. A thousand people are gathered in this park from one o'clock in the morning! Our solution: to create a real center for drug addicts, with real medico-social and psychological follow-up ”, they announce. And Rachida Dati to hammer: “That's enough to move drug addiction 600 m. We really have to act. Let's stop putting dust under the carpet. "
A little further, in the park, an exchange takes place with a drug addict. “Cocaine destroyed my life. I'm 69, and I'm dead, he blurted out, a toothless smile. Cocaine is the worst of my mistresses. "Rachida Dati:" Do you agree to be released? " Yes Madam ! ". "Do you understand that this is no longer possible now?" »Asks the elected. “Yes, I can feel it. Help me. The dope destroyed my whole life. "
