A dozen arrests took place Tuesday morning in the midst of pro-euthanasia activists for suspicion of trafficking in barbiturates.
Police custody have all been lifted, without prosecution at this stage, according to information from Europe 1.
A dozen pro-euthanasia activists were arrested Tuesday morning by the gendarmes as part of an open judicial investigation for trafficking in pentobarbital, an anesthetic banned in France since 1996 and used for assisted suicide.
On Wednesday, the eleven police custody were lifted, without prosecution at this stage, according to information from Europe 1.
These people, aged 60 to 80 and who have worked in the medical professions (teacher, physiotherapist, psychologists), campaign for the right to choose one's death within the association Ultime Liberté.
Justice is wondering about their role in a barbiturate trafficking dismantled in 2019.
The president of the association Ultime Liberté refutes the accusations
According to information gathered by Europe 1, they are suspected of having helped other members to obtain lethal doses of barbiturate.
Heard as a witness at the end of 2019, the president of the association assured that Ultimate Freedom did not serve as an intermediary.
Ultime Liberté has a particular position in the landscape of associations favorable to euthanasia.
It is more radical than ADMD, the Association for the Right to Die with Dignity, which prefers to direct people at the end of their life to Switzerland or Belgium.
Ultime Liberté militates for the explicit recognition of "voluntary death" in French law.
The association has launched a petition which has collected more than 11,000 signatures to obtain that "any major French citizen can legally access a lethal dose".