A young woman was discovered dead of a heroin overdose, at the Porte de la Villette square in Paris, where the authorities have carried out a disputed grouping of crack users, AFP learned on Wednesday (November 3rd) from of an association and of the town hall of Paris.
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The body of this woman in her twenties was found last Thursday, said the association 93 Anti-Crack, which distributes hot drinks in this square located below the Boulevard Périphérique, in the 19th arrondissement, on the edge. of Seine-Saint-Denis.
The mayor of Paris, contacted by AFP, confirmed this death.
"
The inaction and silence of the State must no longer last and we demand immediate shelter and actions of health and social care without delay,
" said in a statement this association, which denounces the grouping of drug addicts there by the authorities.
The fear of a "dying"
According to crack users met Wednesday in the square by AFP, the young woman did not live there, but went there every day with her dog. According to the one who says he discovered her body, she had been dropped off there, unconscious, by those who provided her with her drugs, bought outside. "
If nothing is done, this drug supermarket will become a dying place, that's what is happening
", reacted to AFP the mayor (PS) of the nineteenth arrondissement François Dagnaud, denouncing an "
aggravation of the situation
".
A smokable, inexpensive and highly addictive derivative of cocaine, crack has long plagued the north-east of Paris and its immediate suburbs.
The movement at the end of September of about fifty drug addicts from the district of the gardens of Éole (19th century) to the square of the Porte de la Villette makes residents fear the emergence of a new high place of consumption on the edge of the Seine-Saint-Denis.
Small demonstrations by residents have been held every Wednesday evening in recent weeks.
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The authorities have erected a wall between the neighboring town of Aubervilliers and the square where users have been relocated, supposed to prevent passage to the suburbs of the latter.
For its detractors, who sometimes qualify it as a “
wall of shame
”, it has become the symbol of the state's powerlessness in the face of the endemic scourge of drug trafficking and consumption.
