Laurent Vallet, president of the National Institute of Audiovisual, was reportedly arrested on July 29 after buying cocaine from a minor.
The president of the National Institute of Audiovisual (INA), Laurent Vallet, was arrested on July 29 in Paris, after being delivered from cocaine to his home, AFP learned from judicial sources on Tuesday, confirming information from Current values. Regarding a first arrest, it was “Oriented towards a therapeutic injunction”told AFP a judicial source. Solicited by AFP, the INA, whose mission is to archive the images and sounds of television and radio and to enhance these funds, did not react immediately.
It all started with a spinning of a 17 -year -old young man with the Bac police (anti -crime brigade) who managed to follow him even in the interior courtyard of a building, a police source told AFP. When he left, they challenged him and discovered him that he had a sum of 600 euros. The young man said he had gone to see a friend. The police then contacted “friendIn question, who is in fact the president of the INA. He admitted to having bought the young man of cocaine for an amount of 600 euros and handed over to the police. Cocaine is generally sold around 60 euros per gram, at detail, in France.
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Renewed in May
Aged 55, Laurent Vallet was renewed in May for a third term of five years at the head of the INA, on the proposal of the Minister of Culture, Rachida Dati. He has occupied the presidency of this public structure since May 2015. He then succeeded Agnès Saal, which remained less than a year in office. She had to resign at the request of the Minister of Culture at the time, Fleur Pellerin, after the revelation of taxi costs exceeding 40,000 euros in ten months. Before directing the INA, he was since 2002 Managing Director of the Institute for the financing of cinema and cultural industries (IFCIC), a credit institution which aims to facilitate access to credit for cultural businesses. He graduated from Sciences Po, HEC and ENA.