The president of the region went to Pantin this Sunday morning. She spoke with local residents, exasperated since the arrival of crack consumers at Porte de la Villette. Valérie Pécresse asks for the creation of a center for the fight against addictions.
For the president of the region, the various evacuations of drug addicts since 2019 are “a hat game“.
“We moved them. We moved the problem here in Seine-Saint-Denis to a place which already concentrates a lot of social challenges”, she denounced.
We can not install these drug addicts between Paris and the Seine Saint Denis.
“Aubervilliers, Pantin still find themselves with social distress”, she told the press. These two citiesdon’t have the (Editor’s note, drug addicts) ways to manage them“. “The elected officials of Seine-Saint-Denis have said it, Seine-Saint-Denis is not a trash can. We cannot transfer all the problems of France and Paris to the department“, she added.
The wall of shame
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Valérie Pécresse criticized the construction of the wall prohibiting passage between Paris and the Quatres-Chemins district in Pantin. A wall tagged last night, which reads, ‘The Wall of Shame’.
This wall won’t solve the problem
“My fight is to try to break these social, territorial fractures that there are in the country, between Paris and its most popular suburbs. To create a wall means to enclose. Lock people into their social situation. Lock people in their territory and it is not possible“said the presidential candidate.
Create a center to fight against addictions
According to Valérie Pécresse, the solution lies in the creation of centers for the fight against drug addiction. “Today, we need an answer that is both sanitary and not just a game of bonneteau“, she said.
And to continue:The problem is not to move drug addicts from one place to another. The problem is to create a real center for the fight against addictions to enable them to get off drugs and the streets. We must succeed in creating a detoxification structure instead of opening shooting rooms which disturb public order everywhere in Paris and create encouragement to consume“, aiming at Anne Hidalgo’s desire to create 4 safer drug consumption rooms.
We have to do it, all together.
The regional president said she was ready to finance these structures for the fight against drug addiction with the State and the city of Paris: “I reached out to the mayor of Paris, to the State to build a structure. We all need to work together to solve this problem. For now, my hand has remained in the air.”
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