It's a soap opera.
A series worthy of Netflix or Amazon Prime.
Each day has its press release or press conference.
This Friday noon, the police headquarters announces that it is abandoning its plan to evacuate crack users from Porte de la Villette to send them to the 12th arrondissement on an SNCF site in Bercy-Charenton.
“The Prefect of Police takes note of the virulent opposition of the mayor of Paris to any project to move crack users out of Place A. Baron, going so far as to consider legal action against him.
Under these conditions, he can only note his impediment by the City to carry out the evacuation to the site of the 12th arrondissement or to any other site, the town hall having refused to make the slightest proposal”, underlines the text of the services of Didier Lallement .
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In Paris XII as in Charenton, we do not want crack consumers
Assessment, back to square one pending a meeting of the “crack” committee on February 1 under the aegis of the regional prefecture with the City and the ARS (regional health agency) as well.
The dismantling of the permanent barracks on Monday morning will have finally just allowed the police to better perceive the possible traffic on the spot, without finding a new solution to relieve the inhabitants of northern Paris or those of Pantin and Aubervilliers (Seine- St Denis).
The police will continue their operations Porte de la Villette
Moreover, the prefecture places all responsibility for this failure and its consequences on Anne Hidalgo (PS).
“The Prefect of Police will continue to ask the City of Paris to clean this place of debris accumulated and transformed into huts, even if it means requisitioning it again as he has just done.
He refuses indeed, that a shantytown is built at this place masking with the sight of the police officers , the traffics, asserts the press release.
And to conclude: “He finally rejects his repeated reproaches of inaction by the police in their fight against traffickers and consumers.
The figures are there to demonstrate the results of the very strong police presence put in place to secure the inhabitants: while consumers represent a few hundred people in Paris, 388 people were arrested for trafficking in 2021, leading to frequent convictions for prison sentences, and 419 people arrested for use.
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