'It's chaos': Children harassed at playground near Montreal safe drug-use site
CTV
For months, parents in Montreal's St. Henri neighbourhood have been warning that a new safe drug-use site near their children's elementary school playground would lead to unsafe situations. Months after opening, it seems their fears have come true.
For months, parents in Montreal's St. Henri neighbourhood have been warning that a new safe drug-use site near their children's elementary school playground would lead to unsafe situations.
Months after opening, it seems their fears have come true.
"People injecting drugs, nudity, and what is the most frustrating is my little girl says sometimes they can't go to play outside because there's a battle or they're screaming outside, so they have to stay inside," said parent Charles Deschenes.
On Sunday, Deschenes said he took his children to the school to play and discovered two people having sex on school grounds.
"I had hope, a little hope, that during the opening, they would make it very good," he said. "But it's not going good at all right now. It's chaos."
On Tuesday, a window was smashed at the Petro Canada at Atwater Avenue and Notre-Dame Street.
St-Henri resident Real Remillard said he witnesses children being harassed on a daily basis on their way to school.
