April 2013, Yacin Sid's father had just left the witness box. "Look at me, look at Pierre's family, you must tell the truth, they need it." Yacin replied "That is why I have decided to confess today." His father said "This wasn't how I raised you, you have to answer all the questions so the truth can be told." Yacin's father continued "He was a lovely boy, he was always around me, I called him my shadow".
There was a dramatic twist that afternoon. Yacin Sid asked to be allowed speak: "I lied before the court, before the examining judge. I am the author of Pierre Nasica's murder. I'll explain to you what happened ..." He couldn't go on. His family was in shock. The hearing was suspended.
The hearing resumed at 14.40. Yacin Sid read his confession. "We ate a kebab at 1pm. I suggested him going to the parking garage at the Arsenal to smoke. We had been drinking at the kebab restaurant. We talked about credit cards. I had problems with drug debts. Pierre would have nothing to do with it. Pierre didn't take it seriously. He told me it was pointless. That pissed me off. I wanted to make him afraid. I had a knife in my bag. I took it out. I told him that he had to help me. He laughed. I stabbed him for the first time, I don't know where. I went at him relentlessly. He fell to the ground and I was raging. I couldn't understand what I was doing. I didn't recognize myself. He wasn't moving any more. That was when I understood. I shook him. I panicked. I had a lace in my belt. I put it around his hands to stage a believable scene. Afterwards, I was locked in total denial. I couldn't believe that I was capable of doing that. I ask his family's forgiveness. I'm confessing for the family, for justice. I accept the consequences of my actions. I never wanted to kill him. Pierre was always my best friend. I'll regret it my whole life. I'm sorry that I lied for two years."
Extract from l'Est républicain 8th April 2013
Drugs are not a disease. The best way to stop them is not to take any. Heroin addicts who achieved withdraw admit that complete abstinence is the only solution. They say it themselves : it is more difficult to withdraw from Subutex (substitution drugs) than from heroin…
The half-life of an active substance is the time required by a healthy body, with no previous drug use, to eliminate 50% of the absorbed substance. In the case of cannabis, the half-life is 96 hours or 4 days. This means that within 4 days the body has eliminated 50% of the initial dose. 4 days later, there will be 25% of the product left… Within 28 days, cannabis will be totally eliminated from the body of a person who has not consumed it regularly. Traces of decayed THC may be found in a regular consumer’s body up to 40 days after the last take. According to Dr Chamayou’s thesis, 18 months are needed to be completely cleared of cannabis.
When you consume alcohol and cannabis simultaneously, these products mutually increase their effects. The current practice is to use alcohol and cannabis at the same time. Many young people nowadays use this common method to try to get “stoned”.
Any psychotropic drug, be it legal - anxiolytic, tranquillizer, benzodiazepine, neuroleptic - or illegal - street drugs - leads to ill-being, depression and to suicide. See table with side effects of psychotropic drugs – Technical Information/Classification .
Voir le tableau des effets secondaires des drogues psychotropes (Fiches / Classification)
No parent would lend his car to his child knowing he/she has not learnt to drive. It would also be unconscionable to let one’s teenager go out without having taught him/her what drugs are. Nowadays availability of these products is such that youth can procure them in all the places they frequent – educational establishments, parties, class dinners, rallies, sport clubs... Parents must inform themselves objectively and scientifically about the products so to educate their children on drugs and provide them with the arguments to refuse them. Let us remember that drug addiction doesn’t just happen to others!
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