The garden of Eole, where consumers of crack from the north-east of Paris have been gathered every evening since mid-May, must be returned to the inhabitants by the end of June, demanded Monday the PS mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo, favorable to the opening of supervised consumption areas.
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We are going to make a global proposal to the Prime Minister on how to quickly get out of this unacceptable situation in the Jardin d'Eole and in particular with a deadline that I set, which is the end of June,
" said the mayor at the microphone of BFMTV, while an interministerial meeting on the subject was scheduled for the afternoon around Prime Minister Jean Castex.
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The Eole garden must once again become a garden for residents, users and children
", insisted Ms. Hidalgo on the sidelines of another meeting with the mayors of the north-eastern Parisian arrondissement (10th, 18th and 19th centuries) , drug addiction aid associations and local residents' associations.
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Emergency measure
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In order to relieve the inhabitants of the Stalingrad district, crack users have been grouped together since mid-May in the evening in this place that drug addicts used to frequent during the day before migrating to Stalingrad, 500 m further on, during the night.
The public garden is now open to them until 1 a.m.
After this "
emergency measure
" by the prefect Didier Lallement, who considered that "
public order was threatened
" in Stalingrad, Anne Hidalgo had denounced the "
short-term policy
" of the State to fight against the use of crack in the capital.
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Only a sustainable and ambitious response, at the same time health, social, psychiatric and fight against trafficking will allow consumers to get off the street, to support them in reducing consumption and reintegration
", wrote on Twitter Anne Hidalgo, favorable to the opening "
of consumption spaces framed by medico-social devices, as part of a global support offer
", told his entourage to AFP. "
The objective is to promote the spacing of the catches, the reduction of consumption and the associated risks, and therefore the psychiatric and social stabilization of the users, conditions so that they adhere to the follow-up and that perhaps one day they can really get off the hook
",explains the same source.
The subject of lower risk consumption rooms (SCMR) is very sensitive in the capital, where only one structure of this type has existed since 2016, in the 10th arrondissement. For Anne Souyris, Anne Hidalgo's EELV health assistant, “
these consumption rooms largely appease a place where there is consumption
”.
