After the big winter cleaning on Monday, the Paris police headquarters is looking for a new place for crack users. Indeed,
according to Le Parisien, the prefect Didier Lallement sent a letter to this effect to Anne Hidalgo.
According to a police source, the prefecture is looking for a new place that is not part of the public space to accommodate drug addicts. It must also meet two criteria, adds the same source: the place must be clearly far from any residential area and sufficiently accessible for medico-social support to be provided there. Basically a vacant lot, far from the houses. As much in Seine-et-Marne, it is playable, as much in Paris, it is immediately more complicated.
It’s the cold war
At the same time, Didier Lallement asks the town hall of Paris to make him proposals for places, as it had undertaken to do several months ago, specifies a police source. What the Town Hall refuses. “We cannot continue like this, moving the camp from one place to another, from Riquet to Porte de la Villette”, denounces Anne Souyris, deputy in charge of Health. More than any other place, the town hall of Paris is asking for additional accommodation.
In its report last December on the Plan crack in Paris, the regional chamber of accounts wrote that “the coordination of public actors (prefecture of the Île-de-France region, City of Paris, ARS, police prefecture […]) and associative operators must be revived”. Obviously, we are not there.