MEP Cyrus Engerer slams war on drugs as a failure

Maltese Member of the European Parliament (MEP) Cyrus Engerer took to Twitter to address recent comments made on ‘the war on drugs’ and following the recent killing of 30-year-old Pelin Kaya.

Engerer said that a war on drugs will always fail and that ‘no country can arrest its way out of drugs – it is much more complex.’‘This matter is not for sensationalism and populist statements. We must attack trafficking, while at the same time work on addiction knowledge and well-being. Science not ideology’ he wrote.

Pelin Kaya was killed by a cocaine-intoxicated Jeremie Camilleri, who drove his car into the woman and then into a KFC in Gżira.

The incident prompted Nationalist MP Jerome Caruana Cilia to call for a revitalisation in the war against drugs to counter a spike in drug trafficking. He stated that the war should focus on traffickers and not drug users, who need rehabilitation, instead of prison sentences.

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