We can't even count the rounds anymore.
This Wednesday, in the Council of Paris, Anne Hidalgo and Didier Lallement were again torn apart when the subject of the crack crisis was discussed within the hemicycle.
It must be said that the mayor (PS) of the capital had just drawn a new card.
With Aubervilliers, Pantin and the department of Seine-Saint-Denis, the City of Paris has decided to seize the administrative court of a request for interim relief "useful measures".
Clearly, they attack the State which they blame for its inaction in the face of the scourge that plagues the northeast of Paris.
For four months, crack users have been installed at Porte de la Villette, on the edge of the ring road, on the decision of Didier Lallement, the prefect of police.
Since then, nothing, to the dismay of local residents who in turn live the hell denounced before them by the inhabitants of Stalingrad, where the cracked wandered before their move.
Anne Hidalgo denounces the solo rider of Gérald Darmanin
“The situation at the Porte de la Villette is unacceptable and is deteriorating day by day.
It is up to the State to act urgently, that is the whole meaning of this referral to the judicial authority, we explain at the town hall.
All the local authorities remind us that drug users need comprehensive, health and social care, to which the current succession of police operations in no way responds.
These operations also accredit the idea that there are places, real open scenes of lawlessness, where drug trafficking takes place in full view of all and with complete impunity.
This situation at the Porte de la Villette is intolerable.
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Thus, Anne Hidalgo hopes that the court will reaffirm “the competences of the State in terms of health and social care”, which it refutes.
And will enjoin him "to offer, on a provisional and protective basis, emergency accommodation allowing medico-social care for drug addicts".
Suffice to say that Didier Lallement had something to be quite upset.
Especially since before he took the floor, the socialist presidential candidate had sounded the charge.
She said, in short, she regretted the lone rider of Gérald Darmanin, Minister of the Interior, who, according to Anne Hidalgo, does not support the position of Jean Castex, the Prime Minister.
The latter “arbitrated a position on the subject of crack, which consists in saying that a global approach is needed, recalled the mayor of Paris.
But we have a problem, because this position is not supported by the Minister of the Interior.
So we don't have the support of the police force necessary to maintain places where we can both secure local residents and support drug addicts.
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"I don't understand anything anymore and I'm sorry"
Didier Lallement first wanted to defend his minister.
“I can't let you publicly question the Minister of the Interior.
You have no element that allows you to judge his loyalty.
And you're not the judge of his loyalty in government.
I understand that we may not agree politically, but there is no place for personal questioning here.
Gérald Darmanin is an excellent Minister of the Interior who does his job.
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Hustle in the assembly.
Anne Hidalgo tries to cut short the intervention of the prefect of police.
Who, however, wants to speak again.
“On the substance of the matter, allow me to wonder.
How can we contract with the State within the framework of the crack plan, and at the same time attack it.
Either we do it together and we do it including the rest rooms, or we go to court.
What is your final position?
Are you in a collaboration on the crack plan, which I don't manage, or are you in a jurisdictional dispute with the State?
You cannot at the same time call for common solutions and at the same time explain that there is a debate before the courts.
I don't understand anything anymore and I'm sorry.
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"Don't be sorry.
The thing is very simple to understand, then retorts Anne Hidalgo.
We question the non-action of the State.
We will ask the administrative court to be able to judge.
“We are waiting for the rest of the fight.
The residents of the Porte de la Villette even more.
