Evacuated at the end of June from the Eole gardens, in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, the drug addicts did not go very far: they stopped at the gates of the square.
They have established a real makeshift camp, on the other side of the park gates, where more and more of them meet each day.
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Sprawled out in front of a hairdressing salon in rue d'Aubervilliers, a man covered with a gray canvas is heating a crack pipe in his hands.
It is barely 9 o'clock in the morning and they are already a hundred gathered around the gardens of Aeolus.
Along the sidewalk, makeshift tents, overturned bikes, camping mattresses and chairs.
A
"real little village",
underlines with irony Frédéric Francelle, spokesperson for a collective of local residents.
Since the beginning of the summer, the
“crackers”
have been tacitly authorized to occupy the front of the garden, despite the decision taken by the mayor of Paris to return the garden to the inhabitants.
A displacement of a few meters which particularly irritates the inhabitants
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