Laurent Vallet, president of the National Audiovisual Institute, suspended after buying cocaine

At a time when the government has declared war on drug trafficking and intends to empower drug consumers, the case has a bad effect. A senior official, Laurent Vallet, president of the National Audiovisual Institute (INA), was arrested in Paris on July 29, after being delivered cocaine to his home, reported to the Monde the Paris prosecutor’s office, Tuesday August 12, confirming information from Current values.

Occurring in the torpor of summer, the incident would undoubtedly have passed under radars if the weekly had not revealed it. A few hours later, the political sanction fell. Explaining to having read “By the press” of questioning the president of the INA “In a case of purchase of narcotics”the Minister of Culture, Rachida Dati, announced on X her decision to “Hang immediately” of his functions “For the serenity of the institution” et “While waiting for more information”.

According to a police source from the France-Presse agency, the case began with the spinning of a 17-year-old minor with police from the anti-crime brigade. After following the young man in the interior courtyard of a building, they had arrested him when he left and had discovered on him the sum of 600 euros. He told them that he went to see a « ami »who turned out to be Laurent Vallet. The latter admitted to the police before the cocaine for this amount and presented the drugs to the police.

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