By AFP
IFrench government spokesman Olivier Véran said on Tuesday that there was no “social” or “political” tolerance for drugs like cocaine, after comedian Pierre Palmade’s road accident in during which a pregnant woman lost her child.
“I do not believe that there is a social, societal and even less political tolerance vis-à-vis such and such a drug on the pretext that such and such a public consumes it more favorably,” said Mr. Véran on France 2. , questioned about the accident last Friday of Pierre Palmade, who tested positive for cocaine, according to a police source. “Drugs, cocaine, opiates, are extremely dangerous drugs with an extremely powerful addictive power and which lead to human tragedies which we must avoid by all means”, he added.
Mr. Véran reiterated the objective of doubling the controls of driving under the influence of drugs: “We carry out nearly 500,000 controls per year of driving under the influence of narcotics and we intend to double them”, added he explained. “These are goals that are not new. We are increasing the number of controls, because nearly one in five deaths linked to a road accident is linked to the taking of narcotics. It’s 700 deaths a year, two a day, ”he lamented.
At 54, Pierre Palmade was seriously injured in a car accident on Friday, which also left three seriously injured, including a child and a pregnant woman who lost her baby.
