Crack crisis in Paris: Anne Hidalgo and Laurent Nuñez display their complementarity
By Camille Ducrocq
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The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo and the recently appointed Chief of Police, Laurent Nunez, met on Tuesday, September 27, 2022, in the center of the capital to salute the action of the municipal police. On this occasion, they discussed the subject of the crack crisis in Paris. “There is a complete agreement” on the question, assured the elected Parisian.
A duo that wants to be on the same wavelength
In an interview on BFM-TVSunday September 25, 2022, Laurent Nuñez announced the closure of the Forceval campin the 19e district, where a hundred crack smokers have been living for the past year. However, he did not give any closing date.
On Tuesday, alongside Anne Hidalgo, he reaffirmed that the consumer camp was going to “close definitively”. “I don’t set a deadline. It is necessary to avoid that there is a new installation, therefore it is necessary to find the good devices of care of these people”, he specified, report The Parisian.
The mayor of Paris has displayed the same desire: “You have to walk on two legs. I demand the presence of the police on site for the safety of residents, for drug addicts and to arrest dealers. The second leg is health and social support for drug addicts. »
A displayed “complementarity”
“We are together to show this complementarity and to work each in the skill that is his,” said Anne Hidalgo during this trip. This desire to work hand in hand radically changes the relationship that the mayor of Paris had with the predecessor of Laurent Nuñez, Didier Lallement.
The prefect also indicated that “24 crack sellers have been arrested on the site since the beginning of August”. 450 police officers carried out a vast security operation near the Forceval camp on Tuesday September 13, 2022.
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