Drug consumption on the public way: several cities are testing the fixed penalty

This feature should allow the police to draw up reports in a manner "much more simple", said the prosecutor of the Republic of Rennes.

This is a new device for combating the drug consumption on the highway : the cities of Rennes (Ile-et-Vilaine), Créteil (Val-de-Marne, france) and Reims (Marne), will experience in the next few days, the "crime forfaitisé" against consumers of drugs on the public highway.

The gendarmes and the police officers will now be able to draw up the minutes of proceedings, for an offence "statement so much more simple," said Friday the prosecutor of the Republic of Rennes, Philippe Astruc, during a press conference.

fines "of 150 to 450 euros"

"consumers face now a fine of 200 euros, 150 euros if they pay within fifteen days," he said, recalling that the offence of use of narcotic drugs "is not new", and can already be punished "one year imprisonment". And attention to the delays : the fine could be increased to "€ 450". This sentence will also be "entered in the criminal record," said Philippe Astruc.

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To justify such an initiative, the public prosecutor referred in particular to many incidents on points deals, and consumption, to the "serious consequences on the lives of some of our fellow citizens". "There has been an upsurge of regulations of account, a person who has failed to take a stray bullet in the head while she was watching Koh-Lanta. All of this is serious and requires strong action, and coordinates of the part of public authorities, but also accountability for users, where this experiment", he said.

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According to LCI, the date of implementation of this device is not yet arrested, but the experiment is expected to begin between Wednesday, June 3, and June 16. The national center for automated processing of road traffic offences, Rennes will be in charge of the processing of these fines, and an assessment of the experiment will be performed at the end of the summer to see if the device will or will not be sustained over time.

Date Of Update: 04 June 2020, 06:58