For the town hall of Paris, the abandonment of the project was “inevitable, given the incongruity” of the project and these oppositions.
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Turn around. The Paris police chief, who said on Tuesday that he wanted to move crack users from northeastern Paris to a railway wasteland in Bercy, announced on Friday, January 28, the abandonment of this project. In a statement, Didier Lallement “takes note of the virulent opposition of the mayor of Paris to any project to move crack users” and “can only note its impediment”whether it be “to the site of the 12th arrondissement or to any other site”regretting that “the town hall (has) refused to make the slightest proposal”.
Situation of crack in Paris.
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— Prefecture of Police (@prefpolice) January 28, 2022
For the town hall, the abandonment of the project was “inevitable, given the incongruity” of the project and of these oppositions, reacted the first deputy of Anne Hidalgo, Emmanuel Grégoire. They are “pleased with this decision”but denounces a “big manipulation” from the police headquarters. It’s a “political coup to return the ball to our camp by proposing the worst”underlined the health assistant, Anne Souyris, reproaching the government for its “bad faith”.