A young woman was discovered dead of an overdose of heroin, at the Porte de la Villette square in Paris, we learned on Wednesday from an association and the town hall of Pantin.

The body of this woman in her twenties was found last Thursday, said the association 93 Anti-Crack, which distributes hot drinks in this square located below the Boulevard Périphérique, in the 19th arrondissement, on the edge. of Seine-Saint-Denis.

The Paris prosecutor's office opened an investigation the same day to determine the causes of death, he told AFP.

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TWO DEAD AT CAMP DE LA #VILLETTE


We have been informed of the death of two consumers of #crack in the camp of shame, in La Villette: Emma, ​​28, and an unidentified man.


The bodies were found on the floor and in the toilets.


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"The inaction and silence of the State must no longer last and we demand immediate shelter and actions of health and social care without delay," said in a statement this association, which denounces the grouping of drug addicts there by the authorities.

Another situation of cardiopulmonary arrest the next day

According to crack users met Wednesday in the square by AFP, the young woman did not live there, but went there every day with her dog. According to the one who says he discovered her body, she had been dropped off there, unconscious, by those who provided her with her drugs, bought outside. “The young woman died of a heroin overdose but also consumed crack, one indicates to the town hall of Pantin. His companion, who was there, called for help but they were unable to revive the victim. "

"If nothing is done, this drug supermarket will become a dying place, that's what is happening", reacted to AFP the mayor (PS) of the 19th arrondissement François Dagnaud, denouncing a "worsening of the situation".

"There is an accumulation of worrying facts", abounds the town hall of Pantin, which indicates that the day after the death of the young woman, that is to say on October 29, there was another situation of cardiopulmonary arrest in the same square, with a happier outcome, since the emergency services managed to revive the victim.

"Wall of shame"

A smokable, inexpensive and highly addictive derivative of cocaine, crack has long plagued the north-east of Paris and its immediate suburbs. The movement at the end of September of about fifty drug addicts from the district of the gardens of Éole (19th century) to the square of the Porte de la Villette makes residents fear the emergence of a new high place of consumption on the edge of the Seine-Saint-Denis. Small demonstrations by residents have been held every Wednesday evening in recent weeks.

The authorities have erected a wall between the neighboring town of Aubervilliers and the square where users have been relocated, supposed to prevent passage to the suburbs of the latter.

For its detractors, who sometimes qualify it as a “wall of shame”, it has become the symbol of the state's powerlessness in the face of the endemic scourge of drug trafficking and consumption.

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