Scandal in France: senator of the Republic accused of drugging a parliamentary colleague
The senator of Loire-Atlantique, Joël Guerriau , has just been indicted for drugging a fellow deputy with a synthetic drug, as revealed by TF1 this Friday 17 November. The senator, 66 years old and member of the "Les Indépendants" group, was placed under judicial supervision. The full police accusation speaks of " having administered to a person, without his knowledge, a substance that could compromise his ability to discern or control his actions aimed at committing rape or sexual violence", according to what was reported by the Prosecutor's Office of Paris. The victim would be Sandrine Josso, also a centrist MP from the MoDem movement.
A confrontation between the victim and the senator
The victim was admitted to hospital overnight between Tuesday and Wednesday. She felt ill after having a drink with Joël Guerriau. The samples indicated that ecstasy was present in his system. The senator tested positive for several drugs including: opiates, cannabis, cocaine, methadone and MDMA. However, he claimed that he is not a drug addict.
According to what emerges from the first testimonies of the accused, this is trying to pass off what happened as a mistake: the senator would have prepared an exstasy tablet for another parliamentarian who felt under great stress. However, he then gave up drinking the substance, but, by mistake, the same glass was used to give a drink to the deputy Sandrine Josso. According to Rémi-Pierre Drai, the senator's defender, he believes that "the confrontation allowed (his) client to forcefully confirm his version of events, which does not allow any crime to be classified at this stage of the investigation. The investigations will continue as they should. » For her part, “Sandrine Josso is still in a state of shock,” said her lawyer, Julia Minkowski.
What happened certainly puts the French parliament, as a whole, in a particular light, which shows that many of its members calmly use psychotropic drugs even during sessions. This is incredibly disturbing: you are required to be lucid and not under the influence of drugs or alcohol when driving, shouldn't it be the same when deciding the future of a nation? Why not propose mandatory drug testing before a parliamentary session?
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