Introducing drug testing in schools could be an option, given that there are increasing signals that there are students using illegal substances, President Klaus Iohannis said on Tuesday in response to questions.

He made these statements at the Floreasca hospital, where he went three days after the tragedy in Crevedia to visit the firefighters who were injured in the explosions.

Answering a journalist’s question about the option of introducing drug testing in schools, Klaus Iohannis said that “it is a very worrying fact that we are getting more and more signals that there are students who use illegal substances.”

• “Even then there is an option to try to introduce tests, of course, with the consent of parents and so on.
• We cannot sit and watch the phenomenon and do nothing. We need to find something in the sense of educationally preventing drug use, as well as being firmer and identifying those who do not understand well,” said the head of state.

Interior Minister Katalin Predoyu said on Monday that the possibility of testing students for drugs by medical staff in schools if they “visibly demonstrate behavior characteristic of drug use” is being analysed. He stated this on Monday evening, when he presented the conclusions of the Control Body in the case of a road accident on May 2, where a 19-year-old boy, who was driving a car under the influence of drugs, killed two young people. his car