The 34-year-old admitted to struggling with drug addiction for some time and vowed to seek help. "Addiction is a public health issue and must be treated as such," Andy Kerbrat said.Teresa Suarez/EPA-EFE

French lawmaker admits police caught him buying drugs – POLITICO

22 Oct 2024, 13:44 by Elena Giordano · POLITICO

A French lawmaker on Tuesday admitted that police caught him trying to buy drugs last week.

“On Thursday, 17 October, 2024, I was stopped in possession of narcotics,” the parliamentarian, Andy Kerbrat, said in a statement posted to X. “I immediately admitted to the charges against me.”

Kerbrat, who is a member of the left-wing New Popular Front alliance and represents the northwestern region of Loire-Atlantique in the French National Assembly, issued his statement after right-leaning newspaper Valeurs Actuelles published a story revealing that Kerbrat had been detained while attempting to purchase the synthetic drug 3-MMC at a Paris metro station.