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"Fillon shot up on repression" reads the headline of Libération, following the Prime Minister's opposition to the opening of experimental medically-supervised centres for hard-drug consumption, recommended by the government's own Health minister. The left-leaning daily once more accuses the government of instituting heavy-handed policies in order to gain political traction prior to the 2012 presidential elections. However, observes the daily, "overdoses and infections have diminished in the six European countries that have already established such shooting galleries": Switzerland, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Luxembourg, and Norway. The article notes that in Switzerland, "deaths by overdose have been reduced from 400 in 1991 to 142 in 2007, and that cases of HIV infection have dropped by 60%.
A conversation with investigative reporters Stefano Valentino and Giorgio Michalopoulos, who have dissected the dark underbelly of green finance for Voxeurop and won several awards for their work.
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