The Paris Public Prosecutor’s office has dropped a probe into illegal drug possession against Rima Hassan, a French far-left member of the European Parliament, it said on Thursday.
The Paris Public Prosecutor’s office said in a statement the preliminary investigation did not reveal a “sufficiently substantiated offense”.
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The probe was launched last week after police found cannabidiol, or CBD, and a substance that seemed to be a designer drug 3-MMC in her possession.
Hassan has denied illegal drug possession, saying in a post on X that she takes CBD for medical reasons.
Separately, Hassan will face trial in July over a comment she posted on X last month about a 1970s attack on an Israeli airport, the Paris prosecutor’s office said last Thursday.
The prosecutor’s office had also said that Hassan is the subject of six other investigations into possible hate speech while 16 others have been shelved.
Born in Syria, Hassan, 33, is of Palestinian descent and is a vocal pro-Palestinian activist and a fierce critic of Israel. She was elected to the European Parliament in 2024 for the French far-left party France Unbowed.
(FRANCE 24 with Reuters)
