The Paris prefecture issued an order on October 10 banning food distributions for a month in nine streets in Paris.
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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.
In its press release, justice considers that the “disturbances of public order invoked by the police prefect to justify the legality of the ban order have not been demonstrated”. After this provisional decision, the court will issue a judgment “at the bottom within a few months”. The Utopia 56 association – like other associations – had filed a summary judgment to denounce this decree. This Tuesday on its X account, the NGO shouts “victory” and therefore affirms that distributions will be able to resume before adding: “They will not have our solidarity.”