The journalist Élise Lucet recalled to order after having proposed anti -Drogue tests to deputies in the assembly

A “staging” which did not please the president of the National Assembly. Yaël Braun-Pivet published a statement on Wednesday for the attention of the journalist Élise Lucet. In question, a trailer for special envoy (France 2) broadcast on Tuesday on social networks, and tour at the Palais-Bourbon.

In this video, we can see the journalist presenting several salivary tests which she describes as “antisputing screening tests”. “We came here to the four columns in the National Assembly” and “we asked deputies if they were OK to be tested. Most of them said yes, ”she explains face camera.

For Yaël Braun-Pivet, with this video, Élise Lucet devoted the rules of the National Assembly. The accredited journalists “cannot have the exclusive or main object of filming a person who does not have the quality of deputy or minister in the spaces open to the press, moreover with accessories suggesting a staging,” she writes .

In the regulation of the National Assembly, it is indeed registered that “only deputies and ministers in office can be interviewed and that the shots cannot have the exclusive or main object of photographing or filming other people present in These spaces. »»

The president of the National Assembly adds that it “is not of use that the reports produced (at the National Assembly, editor’s note), may appear as having been the subject of a script” but also that A salivary test for deputies is “questionable, the legitimate refusal to submit to it that can create a suspicion towards them”.

“A humiliating show”

Several deputies also castigated the process. In a press release, the vice-president horizons of the National Assembly Naïma Moutchou asked the president of the Parliament “a firm reaction”.

She accuses Élise Lucet of “transforming our institution into a decor of a humiliating spectacle” with the aim of “discrediting elected officials and lowering public debate in terms of entertainment”. “The National Assembly is neither a television set, nor a laboratory of journalistic experiences,” she writes.

“Who is she taking?” Judge ? Doctor ? Cop? Parish priest? », Writes on X the deputy RN Sébastien Chenu. “Start with all your editorial staff Élise Lucet and give us peace!” Also says the RN Julien Odoul.

The mayor of Grenoble had called to test the policies

In the trailer, Élise Lucet refers to the proposal of the ecological mayor of Grenoble (Isère) Éric Piolle. The latter called in early February to conduct “anonymous” drug research tests on parliamentarians and ministers to “see if the problem also affects decisions, while these are supposed to fight traffic” .

The National Assembly has already been affected by drug affairs. At the end of 2024, the deputy LFI Andy Kerbrat was caught in the act of purchasing drugs. For the first time, he will speak since the case in the episode of special envoy “Drugs at home: a France under drugs”, broadcast Thursday evening on France 2.