The Techno Parade will accentuate its action against drug use. A few weeks after the overdose death of a 21-year-old man in a Parisian electro club, the festival, held on Saturday, decided to take action.
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The organizers will call on "Guardian Angels", volunteers to check the status of the festival-goers of the Techno Parade and to put them away if necessary.
There will also be a traveling truck where they can test the quality of their drug with scientific experts, know its origin, what it contains. A process that may seem surprising. But what defends and assumes the mayor of Paris, at the initiative of this measure.
One third of people would leave drugs in the truck
"It's not just for people to know if they can get high enough, they go with their product, they drop it in. Then there's an interview, they're asked where they bought their products, is not it? what they take often etc. The person goes back after, it returns his product, it says 'well that's what it was' and it starts again, "says the microphone of Europe 1 Frederick Hocquard, deputy in charge of the nightlife.
According to the City, in a third of cases, the person would eventually not take back his product. At a minimum , this establishes a beginning of dialogue between the consumer and experts likely to direct them to an adapted accompaniment.