The standoff between the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, and the prefect of police, Didier Lallement, is intensifying.

The latter announced on Friday that he had taken the decision to evacuate, during the day, the addicts addicted to crack who have stagnated since the beginning of the summer around the Jardins d'Eole, on the edge of the 10th and 18th arrondissements.

"The physiognomy of public roads is deteriorating every day, residents are in great difficulty, and it must be noted that the reception areas provided by the Paris city hall will not be operational for several weeks, even several months", specifies the top official in his press release.

Drug addicts will be driven by bus during the morning to Place Auguste Baron, Porte de la Villette.

"A sector without residents," said Didier Lallement.

This place of evacuation had already been proposed to Anne Hidalgo at the beginning of July when she had decided - against the advice of the prefecture - to prohibit access to the Jardins d'Eole to "crackers", a proposal that then had rejected the mayor of Paris, believing that it was only shifting the problem.

This time, the prefect indicates that he is acting “at the request of the Minister of the Interior”.

Shooting rooms

"The prefect of police is aware that this solution remains temporary, and it is necessary because it involves an occupation of the public space less penalizing than that of the rue Riquet", narrow and busy street, near schools, specifies the communicated.

Improvements - in particular access to water and sanitary facilities - have been undertaken in this sector of the Porte de la Villette.

A strengthening of the police force is also planned.

In mid-September, after a summer of confrontation between the government and the town hall of Paris, the Prime Minister, Jean Castex, gave the green light for the opening of new places of care for drug addicts, among which the "treatment rooms". shoot ”.

However, these will not be accessible before the end of the year at the earliest.

The mayor of Paris has not yet reacted.

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