The petition, launched in mid-September, raises issues related to “security” and “public health” regarding the opening of this addiction treatment center. The EELV Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur spokesperson says he is in favor of the idea.
An online petition, which calls for an addiction care center (HSA), also called a “shooting room”, to be installed at the Notre-Dame-de-la-Garde basilica in Marseille, was launched last September .
The latter, which has since collected 96 signatures, is the origin of Nicolas Thomasset. On the set of BFM Marseille Provence at the time, he supported his idea. “It’s a necessity, it’s a question of dignity,” he explained.
A question of “public health” and “security”
According to the latter, who wrote in his petition, this is a question of “public health”. “Every day, we come across dependent people whose survival depends on medical supervision,” he said. But he also raised the security aspect.
“I clearly understood that the different institutions had problems finding a place. As I regularly attend Notre-Dame-de-la-Garde to pray and it is a place that has space, I thought of proposing that it be done there. It would take several,” added Nicolas Thomasset.
A few days after the petition, guest of BFM Marseille Provence this Friday, October 18, Hassen Hammou, spokesperson for EELV Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, gave his support to the initiative.
“We are for all the alternatives that will make it possible to take care of drug addicts in the city. It is a subject, it is a necessity and I think that a large majority of Marseillais agree that we need a space for these people to be taken care of,” he says.
“The project must return to the table”
On the installation at the Notre-Dame-de-la-Garde Basilica, he indicates that he does not know what the ins and outs of a discussion between professionals and parishioners are, but he insists on the need to have a addiction treatment stop.
“I don’t know the technical difficulties at the level of the Basilica to be able to host such an activity (…) What we are saying is that the project must come back on the table, it is interesting and necessary. The medical world more or less agrees that we should talk about it again and try to see where in the city it can be implemented,” he adds. .
Hassen Hammou, spokesperson for EELV Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, assures that “The State has abandoned the municipality and the mayor of Marseille”. “Barnier does not make it a priority, his Minister of Health is absent from these subjects,” he continues.
For him, it is the State which has “put a stop” to the project and therefore it will be up to it “to give the green light” to relaunch discussions on the locations and modalities of this addiction treatment stop.
“What we want is for the debate to be relaunched, there is an urgency and necessity to see it happen in the city,” he concludes, deploring the absence of an agenda and a horizon.
This request comes several months after the cancellation of a similar project at 110 boulevard de la Libération in the 4th arrondissement of Marseille, decided on January 17.
