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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, on Saturday evening, in Italy, Alessandro Macioci, a young, eighteen-year-old man died. He committed suicide by inhaling the exhaust fumes of his car, because he had been accused, Mr Oostlander, of drug trafficking after the police found 2.5g of hashish on his person. These are the facts, Mr Oostlander, this is not something out of a novel.
This is the way in which the police forces of various European Union Member States are interpreting the policy that you are proposing to us to combat serious crime and this is the way that the harmonisation that you are proposing is interpreted. Against all logic, this harmonisation is interfering in the affairs of the Member States of the European Union; it boils down to absurd policies – in a country such as France, for example – and restrictions for the States which are finally beginning to understand. I am thinking here of the State to which you belong, namely the Netherlands, where you have not approved the policy, but I now also have in mind Belgium, Portugal and Spain, where Members of the
are conducting some very worthwhile experiments in Madrid into risk reduction.
This is a policy that we obviously cannot harmonise. What we must harmonise is always the worst – it is a very libertine approach to law, Mr Oostlander, because you are proposing laws which cannot be applied. The Liberals and the ‘libertarians’ want laws that can be applied; but you adopt a libertine approach to the law. And for 30 years, your policy has, day in, day out, produced laws that have never been applied. Your policy is also destroying entire countries, such as Colombia, Bolivia, Peru, Laos and Burma. These countries are literally being destroyed by your prohibitionist drugs policy.
I think that, in addition to the many friendly pats on the back that I get from numerous fellow Members, even from the centre right, Mr Oostlander, these Members realise that this prohibitionist policy is a criminal policy that encourages crime; they realise that we must adopt a very different approach. Even if you try to limit the scope of your report, as you tried to do in your opening remarks, it is going in completely the opposite direction.
The Commission should not be getting involved in this. The Commission was not capable of saying no to Mr Arlacchi and to his criminal form of management that lasted five years, which consisted of recycled KGB officers and Russian generals who were involved in drug trafficking. We all know this – these are the facts that we read every day in the newspapers.
Let the Commission deal with things that it knows how to deal with! The Commission should take a look at the UNDCP reports, but should stop bothering us with absolutely absurd proposals such as this. I think that it is high time that Parliament had the courage to be slightly less hypocritical, and for it to do what our fellow Members Chris Davies and Marco Cappato recently did in Great Britain; as MEPs, we must finally demonstrate the absurdity of these laws."@en1
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