Currently, the withdrawal of the permit is automatic only in the event of a recurrence, regrets in the “JDD” the Minister of the Interior who also announces the increase in road checks.
MO12345LEMONDE WITH AFP
A week after the serious road accident caused under the influence of cocaine by humorist Pierre Palmade, Gérald Darmanin, the Minister of the Interior, says he is in favor of a hardening of sanctions for people driving under narcotics .
“I propose the withdrawal of the twelve points of the driving license for anyone who drives when they consumed drugs”, declares the minister to the Sunday newspaper (JDD) of February 19 , specifying that “the loss of the permit is only automatic recurrence today”.
Currently, driving under the use of narcotic drugs is sanctioned with the loss of six points. Additional penalties can also lead to a permit suspension for a maximum duration of three years and an cancellation of the permit with three years of prohibition to request a new permit.
Gérald Darmanin also wants to “make a medical examination of any proven drug consumer compulsory to be authorized to drive if he is treated”.
“Homicide Road”
“There is no recreational drug: there are only fatal drugs. About 600 people die each year in road accidents linked to narcotics,” he adds in the interview JDD. Based on the proposal of associations, he also said working “with Eric Dupond-Moretti to rename in” road homicide “the fatal accidents due to drugs and alcohol”.
A total of 800,000 road checks “against drugs” took place in 2022, “the double of previous years”. “I have given an instruction to make a million this year,” he said, assuring that “16 % of the controls of the use of drugs while driving proved to be positive against 3 % of those concerning alcohol “.
Pierre Palmade was tested positive for cocaine following a road accident which, in addition to the actor, made three seriously injured-a man, his son and his pregnant sister-in-law who lost his baby -, the occupants of the car struck by the actor on February 10 in Seine-et-Marne. The humorist was indicted on Friday for homicide and involuntary injuries and assigned to the hospital with an electronic bracelet.