Like every night on France 5Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine proposes in It’s up to you current affairs debate or around it. And as what occupies the media space at the moment is indeed the Pierre Palmade affair, which, let us remember, caused a terrible road accident under the influence of drugs, the journalist invited, this Friday February 17, 2023, Jérôme Fourquet. Not an addiction specialist, as so many are currently parading in the media, but the director of the “Opinion” department of the polling institute Ifop. And his revelations on the consumption of cocaine in France are to say the least… astounding! A drug that has become easy to access and used by many trades until now unsuspected! And “work and arduousness are not unrelated to this phenomenon”, as the host points out at first sight. And his guest to explain: “the arrival of cocaine in France has increased over the past twenty years, and therefore this drug has left its traditional consumption zone, whether in large cities like Paris, or in certain circles such as the show -biz, night environments, to irrigate a whole part of the population today, especially in medium-sized towns”, asserts in a first time this observer of the life of the French people.
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Fishermen, truckers who, to hold on, take cocaine
But more surprising, in addition to the fact that medium-sized towns, such as Montluçon, Niort, Laval or even Vannes are regularly “supplied” with cocaine, is that access to the latter now affects a whole “population that we would not historically have thought would be addicted to it”. Examples ? of the “fishermen sailors”, drivers who “to hold on, keep up the pace”, take this poisonous substance, “there is a trivialization of cocaine”, he adds. A “model” often taken up by the cinema, underlines the guest, but generally showing overbooked traders or lawyers… but never “monsieur-madame toulemonde”! “Not enough to compete with cannabis?”, asks Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine. “No, it remains massively present and then much more affordable” but make no mistake about it, the price of a gram of cocaine has fallen terribly: “today we are between 60 and 80 euros per gram, so you don’t take it every day when you are a truck driver but to help you cope, it can happen more often than you might think”! An alarming observation in view of the 700 extremely serious road accidents which occur each year in France and of which Pierre Palmade, despite himself, finds himself at the heart of the debate at the moment.
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“We have a form of dissemination and trivialization of cocaine in France!” Cocaine: mass consumption? Jerome Fourquet in #ThisYou ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/SQbCLX58Ee
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