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Contract worker takes on French interior ministry over drug use and Russian leanings

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The gates leading to the Ministry of the Interior in Paris.
The gates leading to the Ministry of the Interior in Paris. © Ludovic Marin/AFP

A contract worker had to leave his job at France's General Directorate of the National Police and was barred from the interior ministry. He previously took MDMA, while a French intelligence report noted Russian sympathies. A court has given him partial satisfaction.

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