Justice suspends ban on food distributions in the north of Paris

The Paris administrative court on Tuesday, October 17, suspended the order of the police headquarters concerning the ban on food distributions in certain neighborhoods of the 10th and 19th arrondissements of the capital. In a press release published Tuesday, the emergency judge considers that it “There is serious doubt as to the necessity of the measure taken by the police chief to preserve public order.”

On Tuesday, October 10, the Paris prefecture issued an order banning food distributions for one month (from October 10 to November 10), in a working-class neighborhood in the north of Paris. The sector concerned nine arteries around the Stalingrad and Jaurès metro stations. It is there, according to the police headquarters, “that these food distributions generate, by their recurring nature, an increase in the population benefiting from these operations and that they contribute, as a corollary, to stimulating the formation of camps in the sector of Boulevard de la Villette, where migrants are found , drug addicts and homeless people.