Caroline Baudry and Jacques Serais 2:03 p.m., September 24, 2021, modified at 2:12 p.m., September 24, 2021

After a week of tensions, an operation to evacuate drug addicts installed in the sectors of the gardens of Éole and Stalingrad in Paris took place this Friday.

Will this operation be enough to solve the problem?

The inhabitants of the sector, associations and political figures are not all convinced.

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Will the residents of the north-east of Paris finally be able to breathe?

An evacuation operation for drug addicts took place in the area of ​​the gardens of Aeolus and Stalingrad on Friday.

About a hundred people have been redirected by the police.

The drug addicts were installed on the sidewalk rue Riquet (XIX arr.) In tents or makeshift shelters, along the fence of a public garden.

A temporary move to the 19th arrondissement

Drug addicts were placed in six buses to be sent to Place Auguste Baron, towards Porte de la Villette (XIX arrondissement).

A sector without residents in the immediate vicinity, according to the police headquarters.

Water and sanitation should be made available by the mayor of Paris, which denounces for its part the lack of consultation of elected officials of the 19th arrondissement. 

On the spot, the first deputy, Emmanuel Grégoire indicated that he wanted to find a lasting solution with all the public authorities so that this evacuation does not reconstitute a crack hill elsewhere in Paris.

"Who says they won't come back tonight or tomorrow?"

The inhabitants of the area are not all convinced by this operation as evidenced by a local resident under the pseudonym of Stalincrack at the microphone of Europe 1. "It is a good thing this evacuation, because it has been more than 70 days since this camp exists and makes us go through hell. Afterwards, I can not be happy about this evacuation because there are no associations in the place where the drug addicts were moved. Who says they will not come back tonight or tomorrow? We'll wait and see, "he explains. 

The inhabitant describes a hellish situation, which has become a habit for residents of the area, "everyday life is violent. When we go out, we are assaulted. There are thefts, rapes and deaths. We live it all in the open. Paris in 2021. It's a bit shocking. "

"A hot potato that everyone gives to each other"

As with many, this evacuation is a time bomb.

"It's a kind of hot potato that everyone passes on. We move the problem every time. Since this morning, there are a lot of people who come, who were not there for the evacuation and who are a little lost, who do not know where to go. The police send them on foot to the new location, "said the resident. 

What is the solution to remedy this problem according to the inhabitants of the area?

"Most of them want to be treated. That's what is paradoxical. But everything that is put in place is a little under-endowed to help them," explains Stalincrack. 

Administrative quarrels

On the political side, the government and the mayor of Paris have been returning responsibility regularly for several months. The mayor of Paris accuses the government of not having been warned sufficiently in advance of this evacuation. An express action by Beauvau not to leave the field to Anne Hidalgo, who is now campaigning for the presidential election, as explained by Jacques Serais of the political service of Europe 1.

The Prefect of Police is aware that this solution remains temporary.

The town hall of Paris says it is relieved, even if it regrets that the shelter is not organized.

But the government retorted that the establishment of reception rooms is the responsibility of the town hall.

The quarrels between administrations remain the same, with the only difference that it is a new district which will have to undergo this situation.