Palmovka: Will there be a center for drug addicts? Prague 8 refuses
Renáta Zajíčková, the party’s fellow deputy mayor from Prague 5, together with the then mayor of Prague 2, Jana Černona (ODS), who is now the Ministry of Defense, also signed a memorandum last September calling for greater decentralization mainly of low-threshold centers for drug addicts. The joint statement also calls for the possibility of expelling problematic people from the city district.
In the end, a resolution was approved by the municipality, according to which work began on the decentralization of these services. However, when they learned in Prague 8 that such a center should be opened near Palmovka, the town hall fundamentally refused.
Deputy Mayor Ludková stated that no one had told them anything about the new contact in advance, and she only learned information from the media. It’s supposed to be Menclova Street. She also wrote on her Facebook that she met with the mayor Ondřej Gros (ODS) on the spot with the anti-drug coordinator. “For Prague 8, we argued that opening one duckling means transferring the entire ‘scene’ to Libno and Karlin, and that this is not the way to go.” she stated.
People are calling what’s going on there
He also complains that even after the meeting, the anti-drug commission of the City Council The city decided that the center would open in addition to Menclova Street and Za Poříčskou branou Street. “Exactly, from where people desperately call, who they have under the windows,” the mayor writes.
She also published a letter for Councilor Milena Johnová (Prague to Herself), in which she writes that there are a number of different organizations in Prague 8, such as Drop In or Army Spády and others. Ludková also points out that methadone treatment operates on the premises of the Na Bulovce Hospital. “I hope that the design of the optimal network will lead to an even distribution of services to individual city districtsi, which we have been calling for for several years and the attention will not be directed again to those districts, including the Prague 8 district, which are already quite burdened by the ‘unpopular target group’, “he appeals to the councilor. She herself feels that the city district is receiving a “solar hit”.
It should come as no surprise, the councilor replied
Councilor John replied to the deputy mayor that he would suggest experts to place the center at Palmovka should not be a surprisebecause the expansion of the network of addictology services was discussed with the city councils last September.
She also alerted her to that the town hall had the opportunity to comment on the proposals. “I didn’t get any response from Prague 8, which I’m sorry about,She remarked. The design of the service network is also not in its final form. “Based on the comments of the city districts and other analyzes, we are preparing a new proposal, which we will again discuss with the city district representatives at the board of councilors, anti-drug coordinators and members of the anti-drug commission,” she added.
The memorandum of the boroughs last year was created mainly because you people around these centers often complain about the high concentration of drug userswho move through the streets and a petition has been made in Prague 5.
Residents around the U Zvonu tram stop in Prague 5 have repeatedly complained about a large number of drug users in the streets around the contact center in Mahenova Street. One of the initiators of the petition, Jan Vondráček, documented some of the cases he saw around his house.
Author: Jan Vondráček