It looked like a dismantling operation.
It was actually a clean-up operation.
While the police were mobilized early Monday morning to secure the premises, backhoes and diggers destroyed the makeshift shelters located on the camp, north of Paris, where crack addicts are parked.
In a few hours, all the huts installed on this former playground along the ring road were swept away.
The plastic canvases serving as a roof were torn off, the cardboard boxes and the steel sheets serving as the walls were torn to pieces, under the eyes of passers-by filming the scene.
The prefect blames the city's inaction
This operation constitutes a new episode of the arm wrestling which is played out around this file between the prefecture of Paris and the teams of the socialist mayor, Anne Hidalgo, for several months.
The prefect Didier Lallement, who is at the initiative of this company, questions the inaction of the city.
Located at the gates of the towns of Seine-Saint-Denis, Pantin…
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