In France this is currently one of the most hotly discussed topics brought up by the #MacronLeaks. Emails from Alain Tourret, a member of French Parliament, suggest that several times he ordered 10 grams of the designer drug 3-MMC and shipped it to the National Assembly of France in Paris. While the United States mainstream media is yet to have any discussion of this on a profound level, the French media have simply labeled the emails in question as forgeries.
I myself was initially skeptical of this claim as it seemed just so utterly bizarre and outlandish, but after finding the email myself among the #MacronLeaks and confirming its existence I had no choice but to stop and pause. Crucial details pertaining to the transactions were just too authentic to discredit or attribute to a hack and almost certainly were conducted by the exact members listed in the emails in question.
This post will help guide you through my findings and analyses (free of media and political bias) of the "Tourret 3-MMC emails" in an attempt to further solve the massive, cryptic jigsaw puzzle that is the #MacronLeaks as well as determine their validity and source.
The first part of this series, The CIA takeover of smart card company Gemplus (Gemalto), can also be read here on Steemit.
The complete #MacronLeaks (9GB) can also be directly downloaded as a single .zip via IPFS!
Note: Files are the originals torrented from files provided on 4chan at the time of their release. All have been scanned for malware, were personally compressed by me and were verified by admins of the /r/WikiLeaks subreddit.
The 3-MMC emails
According to files in the #MacronLeaks, Alain Tourret received a number of Bitcoin receipts between February and March of 2017, each for orders of "10g" of "3-MMC" from François Amorim Machado who is his assistant at the French Parliament.
What exactly is 3-MMC?
3-MMC is a designer stimulant with mild hallucinogenic effects. 3-MMC is derived from Khat, a popular stimulant among peoples of the Middle East. While several countries are yet to ban the drug, France is indeed among the ones which have:
3-MMC is classified as a prohibited substance in France since the Order of July 27, 2012. This Order extends the prohibition to "any molecule derived from cathinone, its salts and stereoisomers
Source: Psychoactif
Purchase and consumption of 3-MMC would then be a notable violation of at least one, if not many more, French laws.
Analysis of authenticity
Many aspects of these emails demonstrate a degree of authenticity which would be, as WikiLeaks describes, "economically unfeasible to fabricate".(1) One such example would be the 3-MMC itself. Buckled.eu, the supplier of the 3-MMC in the email, indeed sells 3-MMC for €180 per 10 grams according to its own website.(2)
I also did a little digging into market for 3-MMC to determine if the prices used here were indeed realistic just to be sure. As it turns out, the price for 10 grams of 3-MMC online is about €120 through online retailers(3) but it could easily be more depending on quality as well as availability through Bitcoin.
Finally there is the Bitcoin addresses themselves, which each show transactions corresponding to these exact amounts on the exact days in question. There are several such orders, but here's the Bitcoin transaction corresponding to the order seen near the top of this post (note time and amount):
Source: Blockchain.info
I am left with serious doubts that someone could arbitrarily generate such numbers for such a hoax AND physically hack all the emails and accounts involved to make them appear legitimate. Based on independent research I would have to concur with WikiLeaks' beliefs that the #MacronLeaks, at least in large part, are likely real leaked documents from the exact sources which are claimed.
Furthermore, it seems that Emmanuel Macron and his friends may have actually been involved in real criminal activity. As mentioned in the first post, stay extra skeptical of the mainstream press during this time and reserve judgements until you yourself have evaluated all the material available.