Man’s body found near a primary school in Richmond Melbourne near a safe injecting room

A man’s body has been found outside a primary school near a government-backed safe injecting room. 

Victoria Police confirmed the grim discovery near the entrance of Richmond West Primary school in Richmond, Melbourne, about 6.50am on Thursday.  

The cause of death is yet to be determined, but the the death is believed to be drug related, the Herald Sun reported. 

Victoria Police (pictured) were called to the Richmond West Primary school after a man’s body was found 

‘At this stage the death is not being treated as suspicious and police will prepare a report for the coroner’, Victoria Police told Daily Mail Australia. 

The school is just 140m away from North Richmond Community Health, which opened a medically supervised injecting room in 2018 for a two-year trial. 

The aim of the centre is to provide a hygienic place for people to inject drugs away from the public eye and to give immediate assistance in the event of an overdose.    

The facilities have drawn mixed reactions from the community with protests calling for the centre to be relocated away from local schools, with many spotting used syringes close by.   

Used syringes are frequently spotted by Richmond locals near the Richmond West Primary school (pictured)

Richmond locals calling for the centre to be relocated away from local schools with many spotting used syringes nearby 

An unidentified man was located near the entrance of Richmond West Primary school (pictured) in Melbourne on Thursday morning

‘This has to stop. This is not acceptable. This is not fair on our kids’, one woman wrote on Facebook.  

Other locals have called out authorities for normalising the behaviour of local drug addicts. 

‘I’m in shock how authorities treated this issue. Nothing, absolute silence like it is normal,’ another woman said. 

Another Richmond resident shared a picture of an individual injecting themselves in a local street next to a parked car. 

Police were called to the primary school on Wednesday after reports a man was allegedly behaving erratically by ‘dosing his body in water’ (pictured)

A Richmond resident shared a picture of an individual injecting themselves in a local street next to a parked car (pictured)

‘Thanks to the medically supervised injection room’s take away doggy bag, people are now shooting up on the street’.     

Police were called to the school on Wednesday afternoon after another man was spotted allegedly behaving erratically.

The drug-affected male was walking past the school yelling and pouring water over his body before doing pushups on the ground.  

That man was charged with trespassing, possessing a controlled weapon and breaching bail.

Locals said they avoid sending their children to the primary school due to the unpredictable behaviour of local junkies. 

‘It’s sad because l hear it’s actually a good school. No way we were going to send our daughter there though,’ one parent wrote online. 

Richmond West Primary school is located 140meters away from North Richmond Community Health, which opened a medically supervised injecting room in 2018 (pictured)