Probably the French deputy Andy Kerbrat, belonging to the far-left France Insoumise party, did not think that the Police would discover him while bought designer drugs to a minor in the Paris metro. He was wrong. The agents surprised him in the middle of the transaction and detained him with the agents having found 1.35 grams of 3-methylmethcathinone (3-MMC).
The events occurred on October 17, and the teenager who acted as a drug dealer had with him a gram of this substance and 200 euros in cash, as reported by the Prosecutor’s Office and reported by the AFP news agency. The 3-MMC is a designer drug intended to mimic the effects of cocaine at approximately half its street price.
Kerbrat, 34, was not detained at the time by officers, but is being investigated for illicit drug use. Likewise, after what happened, the deputy has reported through X (formerly Twitter) that he will seek medical attention to treat his addiction.
What happened earned Kerbrat a reprimand from the French Interior Minister, Bruno Retailleau, who assured that the parliamentarian from France Insoumise had to “draw the consequences of his actions.” In this sense, he defended that legislators have “the duty” to show “exemplary” behavior. “Is intolerable to see a representative of the Republic buy synthetic drugs from a street dealer,” he wrote in X.
For her part, the parliamentary leader of France Insoumise, Mathilde Panot, has come out in defense of Kerbrat, stating that “addiction is a health problem”. In this sense, he added that he hopes that the deputy could quickly return to his position in the National Assembly.
The Greens deputy Sandrine Rousseau has also supported him: «You have admitted everything. You are receiving treatment. Come back to us in good shape».
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