Yaël Braun-Pivet Récadre Élise Lucet after her anti-crop assessments within the Assembly | EUROtoday

“You just have to moisten the tongue with saliva and, ten minutes later, we know if you have taken cannabis, cocaine, heroin, amphetamines or ecstasy. MPs were asked if they were OK to be tested, “stated the journalist by presenting the assessments in query in a video revealed on social networks, performing as a trailer for the report whose broadcast is scheduled for Thursday night.

“Particularly questionable”

The president of the National Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet reacted, in a letter revealed on her account X this Wednesday, the place she “wanted to firmly remind Élise Lucet the rules that apply to journalists accredited to the National Assembly ». In her letter, the macronist recalls that “aside from deputies”, the shots made in the palace-bourbon “can’t have the unique or foremost object of filming an individual who doesn’t have the standard of deputy or minister […] With equipment suggesting a staging ”.

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The kangaroo of the day

“The fact of filming parliamentarians by offering them a salivary test seems particularly questionable to me, the legitimate refusal to submit to it that can create a suspicion towards them,” regrets Yaël Braun-Pivet. The president of the National Assembly considers, furthermore, that within the afternoon of inquiries to the federal government is a “particularly unwelcome” second, which may create confusion.

Élise Lucet justified these assessments by the current proposal of the mayor of Grenoble Éric Piolle, who recommended submitting elected officers and ministers to drug screening, anonymously. A approach, in line with him, to “see if the problem also affects decision -making circles”.