Bernard Debré, a French politician who is the deputy of the National Assembly of France and MP LR Paris, has stated that the city should ban bitcoin due to the risk of rise in drug trafficking using the digital currency.
Debré, a urologist and aerospace medicine specialist by profession, participated in a French-based survey published by Current Values magazine which revealed the ease of buying drugs online with help of cryptocurrency. Due to this, the politician now believes that bitcoins should be banned in the city in order to curb the risk of drug trafficking, Debré's website reported.
Debré was questioned by the Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve on what could be done to solve the ease of obtaining illegal substances online with virtual currency. As a solution to this, the surgeon doctor has asked ban on bitcoins and the closure of drug sales sites.
He also said that La Maison du Bitcoin (House of Bitcoin) should be shut down in the French capital and believes that the move would stop the cryptocurrency operations in the city.
According to Cryptocoinsnews.com, Debré also spoke about Darknet, a network that can be accessed with specific software, configurations, or authorization, saying that it is similar to supermarket where everytrhing including Kalashnikovs, TNT, counterfeit money can be bought.
Earlier this month, French right-wing party Front National sought to ban the usage of virtual currencies including bitcoin in France as they wanted to protect the ‘real economy’ in the country.
