US EditionFrance: Ina Laurent Vallet's Boss, Suspended After Buying Cocaine, Resigns
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Laurent Vallet announced on Friday his resignation from the position of president of the National Institute of Audiovisual. He had been suspended from his duties by the Minister of Culture at the beginning of August because of the purchase of cocaine. The former director will follow a measure of "therapeutic injunction" as an alternative to criminal prosecution. - The boss of the Ina Laurent Vallet, already suspended for having bought cocaine, r…
At the head of the National Audiovisual Institute since 2015, he was arrested at the end of July in Paris after having had cocaine delivered to his home. Minister of Culture Rachida Dati announced her suspension at the beginning of August.
Laurent Vallet had just been reappointed to head the INA for a third five-year term.
“I have presented to the Minister of Culture my resignation from the functions of president of INA, which I have held since 2015,” said Laurent Vallet in a press release published by Le Figaro on Friday, August 29, 2025. This decision comes a month after he was arrested in Paris at the end of July for a delivery of cocaine to his home and his suspension by the Minister of Culture, Rachida Dati, following information published in mid-August. The …
"I have submitted to the Minister of Culture my resignation from the position of President of the INA that I have been exercising since 2015", in order to follow a "therapeutic injunction" measure ordered by the courts, he said in a statement.
The president of the Institut national de l'audiovisuel (INA) Laurent Vallet, who had been suspended from office at the beginning of August due to the purchase of cocaine, announced on Friday 29 August his resignation....
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