The "
various facts
" accumulate, like an overwhelming succession of proofs that the subject, decidedly, is far from being settled: in Paris on Tuesday evening September 21, it is this time on the Champs-Elysees that a driver shot nitrous oxide lost control of his vehicle by confusing the brake pedal and the accelerator. The motorist whose foot slipped then struck a median, then mowed down four pedestrians, one of whom was even dragged several meters by the vehicle. The evidence found is unequivocal: the woman had filmed herself inhaling "
prototypes
" at a red light, a few moments before the accident, and balloons were found in her vehicle.
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For several years now, the phenomenon has worried the authorities and caused the frustration of the police, who are well aware that neither the possession, nor the transport, nor the consumption of laughing gas is prohibited in France - not even when one take the wheel.
And this despite the many
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