Paris (AFP)
The State "has always taken its responsibilities" in the file of drug addicts of the Jardin d'Eole and "waits to see the proposals" of the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo to find a lasting place for them, underlined the spokesperson of the Gabriel Attal government Thursday.
"The State has been acting from the start and we would like it to be able to act more with us," he said on LCI, stressing that "the State is providing the means": "the police operations" in the neighborhood were "quadrupled", with "an average of five operations per day", and the number of CRS increased to 60.
Anne Hidalgo "says that overnight, she can find a solution, that she has made proposals; we are waiting to see these proposals and we will always be very open to working on this subject, which is a serious subject for residents. ", he insisted, calling on the town hall to" help find operational solutions where drug addicts can go. "
These "were in this garden", to which access is now forbidden to them since Wednesday morning, "because it is she who proposed that they (there) go, because we wanted to evacuate the Place Stalingrad", a he also argues.
Visiting the Eole garden on Wednesday, Anne Hidalgo affirmed that she "would open places" for them if the State "did not take its responsibilities".
The town hall aims "an opening at the start of the school year", according to a press release.
A lower risk consumption room (SCMR) has existed in Paris, near the Gare du Nord, since 2016. But if the Ministry of Health formalized at the beginning of June its wish to authorize the existence of these "shooting rooms on a long-term basis ", the discussions between the Parisian executive, the police headquarters and the government, revived by tensions between residents and drug addicts, have not yet concluded.
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