MEPS COCAINE
July 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE CHAMPAGNE-swilling freeloaders that Eurosceptics claim populate the European Parliament have never had an image of hair-shirt monasticism, but a German television station has alleged many MEPs snort the odd line of cocaine. Tests on 46 toilets in the parliament's Brussels building revealed traces of the controlled drug, said Germany TV magazine AKTE 05, which added that the quantities discovered implied regular use. "Some of the quantities found there would have caused a police drug dog to respond," said pharmacologist and sample analyst ...
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