Le Figaro Marseille
Marseille hasn't stopped hearing about the shooting room.
Almost a month after discovering that the
“addiction care center”
(HSA) project would not ultimately open its doors at 110 boulevard de la Libération, the collective of local residents who had mobilized in this direction will be received by Sabrina Agresti-Roubache during her visit to Marseille this Friday, February 16,
Le Figaro
learned .
According to consistent sources, the Secretary of State for Citizenship and the City, responsible for carrying out the
“Marseille en grand” plan
and recently reappointed to her post, is expected to meet around ten members of the Enfants Libération collective made up of local residents, parents and merchants who protested for a long time against the establishment of a shooting parlor in their neighborhood before winning their case.
The experiment, which planned the opening of a drug consumption place for addicts in a premises located in the city center of Marseille, was finally put on hold on January 17 due to reservations from the Ministry of Health.
The debates surrounding the installation of this shooting room had taken a political turn, spreading beyond the streets of the 4th arrondissement and transforming into real support for many opponents of the town hall, particularly on the right.
At the end of December, during a press conference, the president of the Aix-Marseille-Provence metropolis Martine Vassal even called on mayor Benoît Payan to abandon the project.
Sabrina Agresti-Roubache had also met residents of the HSA before the cancellation of the project in order to gather their mixed opinions.
“The minister had already given her opinion on this matter for security reasons, as a member of the government attached to the Ministry of the Interior
,” her entourage informed Le
Figaro
on Tuesday .
Local residents worried about the future of 110 boulevard de la Libération
During this meeting the question of the future of the premises should in particular be addressed.
The future of this 400 square meter building, which should have accommodated nearly a hundred drug addicts daily, is today uncertain.
“The Marseille town hall, which owns the building, does not give us any clear answer on this subject
,” explains to
Figaro
Perle Perrin, president of the Enfants Libération collective.
“We are ready to cooperate with the institutions so that the future of 110 boulevard de la Libération is part of continuity and meets the real needs of the neighborhood
,” she continues.
Coincidentally with the calendar, this meeting will be held on the day of the theoretical deadline to find a location in the Marseille shooting room, the contours of which are now vague.
This day will also be entirely devoted to the municipal council, before which activists disappointed not to see the project come to fruition are expected to demonstrate at noon.