Opponents of the project won.
The Reception and Support Center for Risk Reduction for Drug Users (Caarud), managed by the Nice Foundation, will not be moving "soon" to 6, boulevard Tzarewitch, as planned for several months.
Mayor Christian Estrosi says he obtained, after a meeting organized on Friday with "all the parties concerned", that this opening does not take place.
Identify “a more suitable site”
Since mid-September, the elected official had strongly opposed this project, after being questioned by "residents worried about seeing this Caarud set up near a kindergarten and important educational establishments" , he said in a press release.
He had even seized the Minister of Health, François Braun, so that he intervenes on this subject, after having asked the Regional Health Agency (ARS) to "give up this project to move Caarud".
Indeed, the move of this center, still located at 85, boulevard Virgile Barel, to the east of the city, has been "authorized and its development work financed by the ARS in 2022", we read on the news bulletin of the Fondation de Nice.
The latter was one of the “stakeholders concerned” brought together by the city, as was the ARS, but also the SOS group.
They then agreed "to continue the work undertaken, without ruling out the possibility of identifying a more appropriate site to improve the care pathway for these fragile people", indicates the town hall.
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