The answer of the shepherdess to the shepherd?
From the mayor of Paris to "his" prefect of police?
Or that of the PS candidate for the presidential election next April to the representative of the State, therefore of the government in the middle of the campaign on a subject that is sensitive to say the least?
Surely a bit of all of that.
This Tuesday, Anne Hidalgo responded to the dismantling of the hard barracks by the PP - place Auguste-Baron at the Porte de la Villette (19th century) - which have been welcoming crack users for a few months after their expulsion from the garden of Eole and Stalingrad.
A response to the requisition of her services by the police, which she apparently did not appreciate, in a letter that we were able to consult.
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The elected-candidate thus refuses any move of the "crackers" elsewhere in Paris.
“Drug users need comprehensive, social and health care to which the succession of police operations in no way responds,” she told the prefect.
And to drive the point home: “However, I note the existence of an open scene of crack whose sustainability you assume, causes the understandable rejection on the part of the residents and disqualifies the installation of the places of care and care. suitable”.
A charge in order.
Clearly, it transfers all responsibility for the persistence of this situation to the State and the prefect.
She disclaims all liability.
Who must find a field, a solution?
This Monday, the prefect of police announced - also in a letter that we had been able to consult - that he had started looking for "land which does not come under public space and on which these people. The first characteristic of this land, located in Paris, must first of all be clearly removed from any residential area. In summary, the prefect is trying to resolve a situation that is complex for drug users and hellish for residents. And the representative of the State to ask the mayor (PS) of Paris to make him parallel proposals for places of reception in the capital. Obviously, that will not be the case.
The two parties seem irreconcilable on this theme.
On the one hand, we believe that the mayor must find accommodation and thus respond to her role and her mission as an elected official responsible for her territory.
On the other hand, this role falls to everyone and in particular to the State via the regional prefecture and the ARS or even the SNCF or the AP-HP to find available land.
In the meantime, crackers are still wandering Porte de la Villette and whether in the 19th arrondissement, in Pantin or Aubervilliers, we are waiting for a solution that does not come.
