Three municipalities, including the city of Paris, filed a lawsuit demanding that the state bear social and medical responsibility for drug users. Paris, Pantin and The City Halls of Aubervilliers and the Seine-Saint-Denis provinces announced on February 9 that they had filed a lawsuit with the Administrative Court demanding social-medical liability from the state for drug users in Villette Gate Square.
The four local governments jointly applied to the court for a "useful" emergency ruling. Nicolas Nordman, the city's deputy mayor for security, said in the city council that he hoped the move would urge the state to take "urgent measures to address the very worrying situation we have seen at the Porta Villette for months".
In the joint press release, local governments argue that the State must provide emergency accommodation "in the name of temporary and protective" emergency accommodation to provide medical and social care to drug addicts in the 18th, 19th and 20th arrondissements of Paris and on the fringes of the seine-Saint-Denis department, or at least to take useful measures to safeguard the health and dignity of the persons concerned, as well as their and the safety of the local population. ”
In September 2021, on the orders of Interior Minister D'Amanan, the police transferred nearly 200 high-purity cocaine "crack" smokers from Eole Garden in the 18th arrondissement of Paris to Auguste Baron, near the Porte de Villette, by bus. The press release said public authorities opted for inert law enforcement when they had the capacity to address the health, accommodation and public order of drug users.
At the end of January 2022, at the behest of the Ministry of the Interior, Didier Lallement, the police chief of the city of Paris, once again bypassed the Paris municipality and announced plans to relocate drug addicts near the Porte de Villette to the abandoned railway district of Bercy in the 12th arrondissement. Under pressure from the city of Paris and the southern suburbs, Le Ramand eventually gave up.
Paris Mayor Hidalgo noted that the prime minister had pointed out a "comprehensive" solution and that the interior ministry had not followed that directive. Hidalgo further said: "We do not have enough police to protect the residents and maintain order among drug addicts. Le Lamont objected to the former's practice of "publicly questioning the interior minister."< #媒体人周刊 #
