US EditionNitrogen Protoxide: Calls for It to Be Recognized as a narcotic... but the Test Is Not Registered in France
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After the tragedy that cost a student's life in Lille this weekend, a member of parliament is calling for a law to ensure that nitrous oxide is considered as a narcotic like alcohol and drugs. Problem: this gas is not detected during police checks because the detectors that exist on the market are not registered in France. - Nitrogen protoxide: calls for it to be recognized as a narcotic... but the test is not registered in France (Company topic…
DEXYPTAGE - Currently, there is no provision in the road code that directly punishes driving under the effect of nitrous oxide, but the law that created road homicide should make it possible to move the lines.
Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez said he wanted to "question an amendment to the legislative rules on the sale" of nitrous oxide.
A 19-year-old man was hit and killed by a car thrown at full speed in downtown Lille (Nord). The driver, suspected of having consumed nitrous oxide and already known to the police, was arrested after having fled.
After the death of a 19-year-old pedestrian on Saturday in the centre of Lille, hit by a fast-moving vehicle, the alleged driver was charged and placed in pre-trial detention for road homicide on Sunday. Bottles of nitrous oxide were found in the car.
The Minister of the Interior, Laurent Nuñez, during a trip to Aulnoye-Aymeries, in the North, on November 3, 2025. FRANCOIS LO PRESTI / AFP A refusal to comply, a fatal shock and nitrous oxide found: a thirty-year-old was charged and placed in pre-trial detention for road homicide following the death, in Lille, on Saturday, November 1, of a 19-year-old man named Mathis. The driver "refused twice to stop, despite the injunctions to this effect fr…
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