Five squalid acres at the edge of the city are home to France’s largest open-air crack market — an “apocalyptic situation,” the local police chief says.

City officials have vowed to open a “rest and health center” by this fall, as part of a three-year anti-crack plan, which is backed by a budget of €9 million, or about $10 million. Drug users will also probably be able to smoke crack legally at the center, which would be a first for crack consumption in France.

Here’s what else is happening

Notre-Dame fire: Construction resumed at the Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris, weeks after the authorities had shut the site down over worries about lead contamination linked to the fire in April.

Prince Andrew: After a British tabloid published a video apparently showing Queen Elizabeth II’s second son at Jeffrey Epstein’s New York City mansion in 2010, Buckingham Palace issued a statement saying the prince was “appalled” by Mr. Epstein’s alleged sex crimes and rejected having any involvement. The statement didn’t challenge the authenticity of the video.

Jeffrey Epstein: Two days before the financier died by suicide, he signed his will and bequeathed his $500 million fortune to a hastily arranged trust.

China: Facebook and Twitter said they found evidence that the country had been waging an information war, and the social media sites took down accounts that were spreading false information about the demonstrations in Hong Kong.

Thailand’s roads: A Times investigation found that in Thailand, which has one of the highest rates of traffic deaths, the poor are far more likely to be killed in accidents than the rich and well-connected.