The mayor of Grenoble Eric Piolle proposes to conduct research tests of narcotics on parliamentarians and ministers “anonymously” to “get out of hypocrisy”.
Throw a pavement in the fed up. This Tuesday, February 4, 2025, is what the mayor EELV of Grenoble, Eric Piolle, did, by proposing the implementation of anonymous screening tests for deputies, senators and ministers. By this process, he wishes to “get out of hypocrisy”, and fight narco-transformation other than by the strategy of “all repressive”, as indicated at the microphone of RMC.
“Given the propagation of drugs in the past 30 years throughout French society, there is no reason for ministers, ministerial offices and parliamentarians to be outside this wave,” said the elected official, still On the RMC set this Tuesday.
“There have already been stuping business in parliament”
“I had proposed to do salivary tests,capillaries and urine in the Assembly and the Senate, with ministers, elected officials and politicians. Anonymously, not to target anyone. Because it must be remembered that there has already been stuping business in parliament, “he said yesterday in the columns of Dauphiné liberated. “It would be a way to see if the problem also affects decisions circles, while these are supposed to fight against traffic,” he abounds.
And this wish of Eric Piolle does not date from yesterday. Indeed, last year already, he spoke of this proposal during a hearing by the Senate commission of inquiry on narco-trafic. This time, the elected official also relies on the conclusions of a parliamentary committee last January, alerting to consumption related to “a form of stress management or performance maintenance”. On RMC, this Tuesday, the mayor of Grenoble highlights two figures: “a million consumers of cocaine and more than 5 million cannabis”. Doù his wish to “make a frank diagnosis” on the subject.
The proposal for a referendum
The ecologist also called at the end of January to a referendum on cannabis legislation: I propose that the President of the Republic takes the initiative to make a referendum on the subject (…) We put more and more people in prison And however, traffic is still so high, “he said. He also deplored” an absence of strategic vision “in the fight against drug trafficking.
As a reminder, several parliamentarians have already faced drug use. The deputy of France Insoumise Andy Kerbrat was arrested in the act of purchase of narcotic products, and Louis Boyard, elected rebellious of Val-de-Marne had recognized having already bought drugs. The former Renaissance deputy, Emmanuel Pellerin, had recognized having consumed cocaine despite the firmness of government policies on the use of drugs.