With the three-day weekend of Pentecost, road checks are reinforced, and an emphasis is placed on the consumption of narcotics, after the recent tragedies in Roubaix and Trappes.
The recent tragedies have reignited the debate on the consumption of narcotics before driving. And on the occasion of this extended weekend of Pentecost, road checks, which are reinforced, will focus on this very dangerous consumption.
In Dammartin-en-Goële, north of Paris, eight gendarmes and their commander carry out checks this Saturday morning around a strategic roundabout. They are not so much with vacationers in transit as with locals who take advantage of the long weekend to party.
Partygoers checked
In the middle of the stopped vehicles, being checked by the police, the pound takes the vehicles of four drivers who tested positive for narcotics in the morning. “In the department, as soon as a person is tested positive for narcotics, the vehicle is impounded for seven days”, explains squadron leader Patrick, commander of road safety squadron 77, at the microphone of BFMTV .
This control is not trivial. Three weekend days is an extra day to “party even more”, underlines the soldier. This can lead to the taking of narcotics, without preventing consumers from driving, although this is illegal.
“The weekend departures were made yesterday or this morning on the highways. Today, we are treating people who stay in the area and party,” he adds.
“Lethargy” of drug users
Drug driving is a particularly dangerous practice. “In people who use narcotics, we see a certain lethargy, reflexes, reaction times that are much longer, especially for cannabis,” explains the commander of road safety squadron 77.
However, these positive people do not really feel the state in which they are. “They have the impression of being well, because they are in their world, a world that works in slow motion”, still indicates the soldier.
Tuesday evening, a six-year-old girl was fatally mowed down by a driver in Trappes. The latter was indicted Thursday for manslaughter by having used narcotics and placed under judicial supervision.
Three Roubaix police officers, Manon, Paul and Steven, aged 24 and 25, were killed in a collision last Sunday, hit by a vehicle that was traveling against the direction and speeding. The driver of this car, also deceased, was alcoholic and positive for cannabis.
Fewer people on the roads this weekend
On the roads, there will be fewer people than for the previous Ascension long weekend. Saturday is classified orange in the direction of departures, green in the direction of returns. There will be even fewer traffic jams on Sunday, a day classified as green in both directions of traffic.
Monday will be green in the direction of departures and returns over a large part of France, except in the north-west quarter, which is anticipated orange in the direction of returns.
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