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Rachida Dati Suspends INA President After Cocaine Purchase

The suspension secures institutional serenity pending Vallet’s therapeutic injunction hearing in early September.

Laurent Vallet, président de l’INA, pose sur le tapis rouge de la 49e édition du Festival du cinéma américain de Deauville, le 6 septembre 2023.
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Overview

  • Culture Minister Rachida Dati suspended Laurent Vallet from his INA presidency on August 12 to preserve the institution’s serenity.
  • Vallet, 55, admitted on July 29 that he bought €600 of cocaine from a 17-year-old at his Paris home and handed over a sachet to police.
  • Judicial sources say Vallet was treated as a first-time offender and directed toward a therapeutic injunction, with his hearing scheduled for early September at the Paris tribunal judiciaire.
  • The 17-year-old seller was arrested on July 29, placed under judicial control after being deferred on July 31, and is due before the juvenile court on December 16, 2025, for drug trafficking.
  • Laurent Vallet has led the Institut national de l’audiovisuel since May 2015 and was reconducted in May 2025 for a third five-year term on Minister Dati’s proposal.