Cocaine at the Center of Power: The Confession of a Former Attal Adviser Raises Questions About France's Elites

When Louis Jublin, the longtime communications adviser to former French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, made his past cocaine addiction public, it was about far more than the personal fate of a political strategist. His confession draws attention to a reality that is rarely discussed openly within France's political and business elites: the connection between enormous performance pressure, an excessive work culture and drug use. Jublin's decision to go public himself was apparently no coincidence. According to his own account, a video has been circulating among several newsrooms for months that ...