The administrative court rejected the appeal of the town halls of Paris, Pantin and Aubervilliers, as well as the department of Seine-Saint-Denis, aimed at obliging the State to offer accommodation and medico-social monitoring to all installed crack users. in a square Porte de la Villette.
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“
The emergency condition
” required by the summary motion, filed in February by the three municipalities and the departmental council, “
is not fulfilled
”, estimated the judges, according to their order of March 18 consulted Monday March 21 by the AFP.
The administrative court noted the "
diligence deployed by the State services with the city of Paris and the social actors
" for the care of drug addicts, citing in particular the "
crack plan
" which, between 2019 and 2022, mobilized 25 million euros.
“Not a big surprise”
"
The number of crack users sleeping on the site of the square of the Porte de la Villette because they do not have accommodation can be estimated at around fifty people
", also underline the judges to justify the absence of urgency.
This decision "
is not a big surprise
", reacted to AFP, the mayor (PS) of the 19th arrondissement François Dagnaud.
On the merits, the elected official deplores the “
conflictual relationship
” between the State and the communities, and asks “
that the State assume its responsibilities
”.
Since September, between 150 to 200 drug addicts have been moved to this square in the northeast of the capital in order to relieve the Jardins d'Eole (18th century), the previous meeting point.
On February 1, the State services announced the financing of 70 additional accommodation places for these drug addicts, corresponding to the number of drug addicts sleeping permanently on site, and increased the total number of places financed by the crack plan to 510. .
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At the end of January, the prefect of police Didier Lallement announced that he wanted to move this same group of drug addicts from north-east Paris, their historic district, to a railway wasteland in Bercy (south-east).
He had given up three days later in front of the "
virulent opposition
" of the town hall of Paris, joined by the right-wing elected officials of Val-de-Marne.
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