After the horrific crash involving comedian Pierre Palmad that left a child dead, the debate about drug use and penalties is back on the table. For its part, the government through the Minister of Internal Affairs Gerald Darmanin also spoke on this topic. The latter really wants to crack down on drivers taking drugs before getting behind the wheel. To this end, it provides, in particular, the complete deprivation of a driver’s license in case of a positive test, regardless of the situation. A statement that will obviously not be responded to.

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A useless measure

Especially from the association 40 million driverswith. His spokesman, Pierre Chassère, spoke on this matter, saying that this measure would be futile. ” I believe this is quite a popular event. People will initially say to themselves, “Yes, that’s a very good idea.” In fact, we are making a serious mistake. We tell ourselves that if our license is taken away, we will stop driving. An offender, if we take away his license, he still drives“. And this is indeed confirmed very regularly, as you can sometimes read in our columns.

Bad strategy

Pierre Chassère also harshly criticizes the country’s road safety strategy. For him, ” France is greatly concerned about the automation of the village system speed cameras, road-only radar cars. And we finally realize it there are many causes of accidents. There are drugs, alcohol in the blood, a phone that these companies and radars do not see. If you really want to save lives, this is where it is“.