The end of the week was again lively around the Jardin d'Eole (18th arrondissement), three days after the park closed to drug addicts.
During the night of this Friday to this Saturday, around 1:30 am, roaming crack consumers were targeted by fireworks mortars.
The scene, part of which was filmed and posted on social networks, caused no injuries or damage.
No individual was arrested.
"The perpetrators of the shootings would be young people from the neighboring city of Riquet", specifies a close source.
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A little earlier, this Friday evening, a knife fight between migrants left three injured, including a serious, rue du Département, a few meters from the park.
And the day before, an octogenarian was attacked rue de Meaux by a drug addict to whom she had just refused a few coins.
This 82-year-old woman, brutally pushed to the ground, broke her neck of the femur in her fall, according to a police source.
Residents at the end of their rope
These new incidents take place in a climate of very strong tensions in the neighborhood. Last weekend, already, drug addicts had been kicked out of the Garden of Eole with fireworks mortars, in broad daylight. The authors, twenty young people, acted very quickly before fleeing when the police arrived. One of them had nevertheless been arrested and taken into police custody.
This Wednesday, at the request of the mayor (PS) of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, drug addicts were evacuated from the Jardin d'Eole. Since May 17, this park in the north-east of Paris has been open to consumers of crack at night, in order to relieve the residents, exhausted, of the Place Stalingrad. A temporary solution, had immediately hammered the town hall, which had promised residents of Eole that the park would find "a normal use from the summer". But the state and the municipality have still not managed to agree on more lasting solutions. Deprived of access to the park, drug users roam the surroundings, in the streets and in the halls of buildings.