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'Shame' wall erected in Paris to solve persistent drug problem

by French Press Agency - AFP

PARIS Sep 27, 2021 - 1:56 pm GMT+3
People sit on benches after being relocated near the Porte de la Villette, northern Paris, on Sept, 24, 2021. (AFP Photo)
People sit on benches after being relocated near the Porte de la Villette, northern Paris, on Sept, 24, 2021. (AFP Photo)
by French Press Agency - AFP Sep 27, 2021 1:56 pm
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A wall erected to keep crack users from entering a Paris suburb has drawn outrage, forcing the government to promise new responses to a long-running drugs scourge.

The conflict could loom large in France's coming presidential race, where Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo is playing up her record of managing the capital in a bid to unseat Emmanuel Macron.

Authorities bricked up a tunnel under the Paris ring road leading to the northeastern suburb of Pantin over the weekend after clearing dozens of crack smokers from a park in the area.

Several residents of Pantin and the neighboring suburb of Aubervilliers slammed the so-called "wall of shame." They demanded that the government find a permanent solution to Paris's decades-old drugs problem to prevent it spilling over into low-income suburbs.

Pantin Mayor Bertrand Kern called the government's decision "shameful and irresponsible" and asked for an emergency meeting with Prime Minister Jean Castex.

"It's by nature a temporary solution for an emergency situation, and does not satisfy anyone," Justice Minister Eric Dupond-Moretti admitted to RTL radio on Monday.

He said the government was working "very seriously" on how to deal with the insecurity caused by crack addicts in Paris, a problem that reached a tipping point earlier this year when disgruntled residents began shooting powerful fireworks at users or pelting them with eggs.

In a letter to Hidalgo seen by Agence France-Presse (AFP), Paris Police Chief Didier Lallement said that addicts had been expelled from a park on Friday because their presence "near several schools" had become "untenable."

He added that the wall was a "necessary protection for the residents of Pantin," which is part of the Seine-Saint-Denis department, one of the poorest in France.

Lallement and Hidalgo have crossed swords repeatedly over the Socialist mayor's request for more supervised drug use sites, a proposition rejected by many on the right.

So far just one is open in the capital, and Hidalgo was forced to abandon plans for a new one in eastern Paris this month after an uproar from residents.

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