Stunned officers watch as man openly uses cocaine in police station waiting room

A Scene Straight Out of a Comedy (If It Weren’t Reality)

On Sunday night, around 11:30pm, a man in his thirties entered the premises of an (unidentified) Spanish police station. Without any apparent reason given for his visit, he asked to speak to an officer. He was told to have a seat in the waiting room—a standard, perfectly ordinary move. What happened next? Anything but ordinary.

While patiently (or not) waiting his turn, according to Spanish news outlet El Caso (reporting on Wednesday, October 8), this gentleman pulled out a bag. Not a sandwich bag. A bag containing cocaine. Without a hint of subtlety, he opened it right there and used his finger to have a taste. Yes, in the waiting room. Of a police station.

Cops Astonished, Drama Ensues

Predictably, the officers—known as the Mossos—were less than amused. They asked the man for his ID, at which point things got lively. He became increasingly agitated, and it reportedly took several minutes for the officers to subdue him.

A subsequent search of his home uncovered over 20 grams of cocaine (for those preferring ounces, that’s about three-quarters of an ounce), although his identification documents were nowhere to be found. He was arrested for possession and consumption of drugs and was also taken to hospital for medical checks. All in all, not the smoothest attempt at staying under the radar.

And Now for Something Completely Different: The Comments Section

You might think that a story like this is hard to top, but the real display comes with the reader comments, which rapidly veer from cocaine in a police station to a heated political free-for-all. Here’s a taste:

Certain people say we should try a party that embezzled millions of euros and whose leaders have already been convicted in the first instance? And Bardella, who allegedly falsified his 2015 agenda (which he supposedly bought in 2018) to justify a fake parliamentary assistant job with MEP Jean-François Jalkh—is he spotless? Of course, we’ve never tried a party whose members might one day pull a Putin and launder billions…

Naturally, another reader responded:

I agree with you—but isn’t it a bit off to post that comment under an article about a guy snorting coke in a Spanish police station waiting room?

And because the Internet never disappoints, someone else jumped in:

It’s true, your left-wing leaders have never embezzled money—never! Just look what your Macronist votes have achieved… You always bash the RN, and it gets tiring because your arguments never change, no matter the situation. Plus, you accuse them of things your own politicians do. As soon as Marine gets close to power and is leading in the polls, suddenly a trial lands on her for something everyone else does. Give me a break.

In Whom Shall We Trust? The Eternal French Question

To wrap it up, another voice—tired but undeterred—chimed in, pointing out the widespread distrust in the entire political scene:

• Who to trust in the political class? Absolutely no one, but look who we’ve had for decades: the right, the left, even the centrists—and nothing ever changes.
• So why not try someone who hasn’t governed yet, and is on the right—namely, the RN, Bardella?
• What do we have to lose? The current RN has absolutely nothing to do with the old FN, and maybe they’ll do a proper sweep in France.
• Retallau doesn’t support suspending retirement until age 64 or end-of-life choices—no one will vote for him. Edouard Philippe wants to move retirement to 67—even worse, no one will vote for him either. As for the left, the PS wants to raise Palestinian flags, the greens are stuck at 3% and think they’re saving the world, the PCF is also at 3%, and worst of all, LFI wants to stir up chaos in France permanently. So, who should we put in charge? The RN—let’s see what happens. We can’t recycle the same old faces, because things only get worse every time.

Sometimes, you go looking for a headline about law enforcement—only to find out France’s eternal debate on political trust is never more than a click away, no matter how wild the story that starts the conversation.