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Crack in Paris: the right accuses the left of "gangrening" the 16th century

2022-06-01T17:26:57.897Z


An elected LR from the Council of Paris accuses the left-wing majority of PS mayor Anne Hidalgo of "gangrening" the 16th arrondissement with the project of a...


An elected LR of the Council of Paris accuses the left-wing majority of PS mayor Anne Hidalgo of "

gangrening

" the 16th arrondissement with the project of a treatment center for drug addicts, including crack users.

Read alsoCrack: outcry over a reception center project in the 16th arrondissement of Paris

With the structure of 35 medical beds which is to open in the coming months in the former Chardon-Lagache hospital, "

you are dispersing the inhuman throughout Paris and you are going to plague the 16th century

", accused Rudolph Granier, triggering a bronca on the left during the question session on Wednesday.

For Rudolph Granier, this "

absurd

" project, led by the Hospitals of Paris (AP-HP) and the Regional Health Agency (ARS) with the support of the town hall, amounts to setting up "

a structure for crack addicts in right in the heart of the 16th arrondissement, which is absolutely not affected by the consumption or trafficking of this drug

”.

For the legislative candidate in the 18th arrondissement, Anne Hidalgo, who has "

done nothing

" against the consumption of this cocaine derivative, will thus "

continue the dissemination of crack in Paris

".

He said he wanted to launch an administrative appeal against this project.

"Shooting rooms"

The presence of crack users in the public space of north-eastern Paris is a sensitive issue for Mayor Anne Hidalgo, who hoped in September 2021 to open a reception center in the 20th century but had to give it up in the face of opposition from residents and the government's veto.

Since then, the latter has extended the experimentation with lower-risk consumption rooms (SCMR), nicknamed “

shooting rooms

” by their opponents and renamed addiction treatment centers (HSA).

Projects like that of Chardon-Lagache "

are not SCMRs, they are medical beds for people with polypathologies and / or with serious psychiatric problems

", replied the health assistant (EELV) Anne Souyris to Rudolph Granier.

The elected ecologist asked the right-wing opposition to show "

territorial solidarity

", saying she was "

sure that the 16th century will be ready to be able to accept these people in great danger to treat them

".

Read alsoParisians demand “new methods” against crack in Paris

In a letter sent to the ARS in mid-May, borough mayor LR Francis Szpiner expressed his "

categorical opposition

" to the drug treatment center project, considering that it could not be established near a college, a church and a hospital.

Source: lefigaro

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