A hit for nothing?

In any case, this is what the Paris police headquarters do not want to believe.

This one requisitioned the services of the town hall to carry out the cleaning this Monday morning of the square of the Porte de Villette, where are massed for 4 months of the consumers of crack.

“Since December, the camp was no longer cleaned, transforming the place into a slum,” explains a police source.

She adds that these huts “prevent the police from carrying out their work, particularly in the fight against crack trafficking”.

But if the prefecture requested the services of the town hall, it is because the latter did not want to do so of its own free will.

“We refused because there is no accommodation solution for these people, explains Anne Souyris, deputy in charge of Health.

It's not at all ideal to have cabins, but it's better than nothing, especially in the middle of winter.

“Because if the buildings were destroyed, the users, they remained on the spot.

The prefecture wants another place, the town hall wants accommodation

Consumers are in the possible expectation of finding another place, as requested by the prefecture at the town hall of Paris.

What she also refuses to offer them.

“We cannot continue like this, moving the camp from one place to another, from Riquet to Porte de la Villette”, exasperated Anne Souyris.

However, this calls for more accommodation.

"We asked for 150 in September, we got 40."

In the end, if the fight against crack will perhaps be facilitated, this cleaning does not solve the problem on the merits.

"After the presidential election, things will perhaps unblock," hopes the deputy mayor.

Without certainties.

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