The Paris administrative court rejected Thursday, October 28, on the grounds of the lack of urgency, the appeal filed by the mayors of Aubervilliers and Pantin in Seine-Saint-Denis, contesting the installation for more than a month of drug addicts near a disadvantaged neighborhood.
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The summary judge considered that "
the condition of urgency cannot be regarded as satisfied
" in this case, despite "
the disturbances to public order suffered by the inhabitants
" of the two towns located on the other side of the ring road, according to two ordinances consulted by AFP.
The administrative court was considering the summary suspension - emergency procedure - filed by the municipalities of Aubervilliers and Pantin.
Transfers already made
They challenged a decree of September 24 from the Paris police prefect ordering the removal of drug addicts from the Jardins d'Éole district, in the north-east of Paris, to a square in the 19th arrondissement on the edge of the ring road. However, the urgency is not demonstrated because "
the transfers
" of some 150 drug addicts targeted - sole subject of the offending decree - have already been made, estimated the judge. Although settled in Paris, users of crack, a smokable, inexpensive and highly addictive derivative of cocaine, roam the Quatre-Chemins, a poor district straddling these two communes of Seine-Saint-Denis.
Despite weekly demonstrations by residents and tensions, no solution has been found.
Bertrand Kern (Pantin, PS) and Karine Franclet (Aubervilliers, UDI) asked that the decision to move be canceled because it does not respond to "
the catastrophic situation of these crack users to treat them and protect us
".
Ordered by the Paris police headquarters, a wall between Aubervilliers and the Parisian square was built, supposed to prevent drug addicts from entering the suburbs.
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The work is described as a "
wall of shame
" by its detractors, who see it as the embodiment of the state's powerlessness in the face of the endemic scourge of this drug which has long plagued the north-east of Paris and its relatives. suburb.