Drugs: green light from Matignon for new consumption rooms at lower risk in Paris – Franceinfo

If it does not explicitly mention the development of new lower-risk consumption rooms (SCMR), say “shooting rooms”, subject of political tension with the residents, the four new sites proposed at the end of August by Anne Hidalgo have “vocation to be part of the experimental framework offered by the law of January 24, 2016, which the government will take the initiative to extend” with the Social Security financing bill presented to the Council of Ministers on October 6.

The 2016 law authorized experimentation with SCMRs until 2022. Two structures of this type have since been launched, in Strasbourg and in Paris. The question divided even within the government, between the hard line adopted by the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin and that of the Minister of Health Olivier Véran, whose cabinet judged “positive” the results of the two structures.

Jean Castex, however, has reservations about one of these four new sites planned by the town hall, located a few meters from a school and on which the mayor of the twentieth arrondissement Eric Pliez must explain himself Wednesday evening with the residents. “I am already calling your attention to the obvious difficulty that the creation of such equipment would represent on a site adjoining an elementary school”, underlines the Prime Minister.

Derived from cocaine, very addictive and inexpensive, crack causes strong tensions in the north-east of Paris, where street consumption causes serious nuisance for the neighborhood. In mid-May, the prefecture and town hall had agreed to bring together drug addicts in the north of the Eole gardens, a historic site of consumption on the border of the 18th and 19th arrondissements, in order to relieve the residents of the neighboring area of ​​Stalingrad.