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This is starting to really worry the French government because it’s very mysterious.
Here the story.
Many complaints have been filed in several cities. At this stage, the results of the toxicological tests could not determine whether a harmful substance had been administered.
At least five investigations are opened in different cities, for about 40 complaints. Ten were deposited in Béziers, by young women and men who claim to have been victims of "injections" by an unidentified object in two discotheques, on the nights of April 6 to 7 and April 17 to 18. Around 30 handrails have also been recorded at the city’s police station, according to a source close to the file at AFP. The prosecutor opened an investigation of flagrance of the head of "administration of harmful substances".
The one in Nantes did the same after 17 complaints, out of 23 reports of young people (20 women and 3 men aged 18 to 20 years) having attended eight night establishments in the city between 16 February and 13 March. The qualification of "wilful violence with a weapon" has been added.
In Grenoble, five young women and two young men also filed complaints. In Amiens, police opened an investigation after a 23-year-old woman was hospitalized after receiving a needle in her arm, reports France Bleu Picardie.
Four complaints were added in April, learned franceinfo at the Bourges prosecutor’s office, confirming a report from the Berry Républicain. They were deposited by festival-goers of the Printemps de Bourges, who say they were victims of "injections" during concerts. An investigation is ongoing.
They report stitches in various parts of the body (thighs, buttocks, hips, ankles, arms, shoulder, back), medically confirmed in the majority of cases, and describe the same symptoms: hot flashes, nausea, discomfort, loss of balance, tingling.
"It was very painful," Noémie, 23, told AFP, was shot "in the thigh, up to the sciatic nerve" in Béziers. The young woman claims to have been taken to the emergency room by friends after having a malaise, "eyes rolled up". She also said she was "paralyzed on the right side for two days". Zoé, a 20-year-old student from Grenoble, "had a black veil in front of [her] eyes". " I completely lost my vision. (...) During the night, my right buttock and leg hurt a lot. Pain like after the Covid vaccine," she says in Le Parisien.
At this stage, most of the results of the toxicological tests carried out could not determine whether a harmful substance had been administered. But as a precaution, the exposed people received preventive treatment after HIV exposure.
In Nantes, of the 16 samples taken in the aftermath, seven first results were negative for the GHB (nicknamed the "drug of the rapist"), said prosecutor Renaud Gaudeul in a press briefing in mid-March, saying that the other nine samples still had to be analysed.
In this city, as elsewhere, no "suspicion of sexual assault" has been reported. In Grenoble, the mother of an 18-year-old girl hospitalized after a feeling of injection assures the Dauphiné Libéré that her daughter was drugged with GHB. Problem: "The tests to be carried out to look for traces of GHB must be carried out as early as possible and in any case before 8 (blood) or 12 hours (urine)", says the prosecutor of the Republic of Grenoble, Eric Vaillant.
The victims are therefore invited to appear as soon as possible at a police station or a hospital to perform urinary and blood samples. In Nantes, a specific levy procedure was set up in collaboration with the departmental directorate of public security of Loire-Atlantique and the Nantes CHU.
Neither the origin nor the motive of these injections have been identified, nor their authors. In Nantes, "no syringes were found on the spot" or seen on the video surveillance recordings, stressed prosecutor Renaud Gaudeul, assuring that "the police services are extremely mobilized and surveillance in the institutions strengthened". An individual was taken into custody at the end of February as part of this investigation, but was released without prosecution "after a few hours".
"Even in the absence of administration of any substance, the perpetrator of a sting in such circumstances could be charged with the offence of 'violence with a weapon', incurring a sentence of three years imprisonment, even in the absence of total incapacity to work, and with the same system of aggravation of the sentences", specified in a statement the prosecutor of Béziers, Raphaël Balland.
A certain psychosis takes hold of the world of the night, amplified by testimonies on social networks. For the Nantes prosecutor, the high number of complaints "can be explained both by a real increase in the facts and by the strong awareness actions carried out by the police services in recent days, in Nantes, with the managers of establishments".
Piqûres dans des boîtes de nuit : cinq questions sur un phénomène qui fait l'objet de plusieurs enquêtes en France
This is starting to really worry the French government because it’s very mysterious.
Here the story.
Many complaints have been filed in several cities. At this stage, the results of the toxicological tests could not determine whether a harmful substance had been administered.
At least five investigations are opened in different cities, for about 40 complaints. Ten were deposited in Béziers, by young women and men who claim to have been victims of "injections" by an unidentified object in two discotheques, on the nights of April 6 to 7 and April 17 to 18. Around 30 handrails have also been recorded at the city’s police station, according to a source close to the file at AFP. The prosecutor opened an investigation of flagrance of the head of "administration of harmful substances".
The one in Nantes did the same after 17 complaints, out of 23 reports of young people (20 women and 3 men aged 18 to 20 years) having attended eight night establishments in the city between 16 February and 13 March. The qualification of "wilful violence with a weapon" has been added.
In Grenoble, five young women and two young men also filed complaints. In Amiens, police opened an investigation after a 23-year-old woman was hospitalized after receiving a needle in her arm, reports France Bleu Picardie.
Four complaints were added in April, learned franceinfo at the Bourges prosecutor’s office, confirming a report from the Berry Républicain. They were deposited by festival-goers of the Printemps de Bourges, who say they were victims of "injections" during concerts. An investigation is ongoing.
They report stitches in various parts of the body (thighs, buttocks, hips, ankles, arms, shoulder, back), medically confirmed in the majority of cases, and describe the same symptoms: hot flashes, nausea, discomfort, loss of balance, tingling.
"It was very painful," Noémie, 23, told AFP, was shot "in the thigh, up to the sciatic nerve" in Béziers. The young woman claims to have been taken to the emergency room by friends after having a malaise, "eyes rolled up". She also said she was "paralyzed on the right side for two days". Zoé, a 20-year-old student from Grenoble, "had a black veil in front of [her] eyes". " I completely lost my vision. (...) During the night, my right buttock and leg hurt a lot. Pain like after the Covid vaccine," she says in Le Parisien.
At this stage, most of the results of the toxicological tests carried out could not determine whether a harmful substance had been administered. But as a precaution, the exposed people received preventive treatment after HIV exposure.
In Nantes, of the 16 samples taken in the aftermath, seven first results were negative for the GHB (nicknamed the "drug of the rapist"), said prosecutor Renaud Gaudeul in a press briefing in mid-March, saying that the other nine samples still had to be analysed.
In this city, as elsewhere, no "suspicion of sexual assault" has been reported. In Grenoble, the mother of an 18-year-old girl hospitalized after a feeling of injection assures the Dauphiné Libéré that her daughter was drugged with GHB. Problem: "The tests to be carried out to look for traces of GHB must be carried out as early as possible and in any case before 8 (blood) or 12 hours (urine)", says the prosecutor of the Republic of Grenoble, Eric Vaillant.
The victims are therefore invited to appear as soon as possible at a police station or a hospital to perform urinary and blood samples. In Nantes, a specific levy procedure was set up in collaboration with the departmental directorate of public security of Loire-Atlantique and the Nantes CHU.
Neither the origin nor the motive of these injections have been identified, nor their authors. In Nantes, "no syringes were found on the spot" or seen on the video surveillance recordings, stressed prosecutor Renaud Gaudeul, assuring that "the police services are extremely mobilized and surveillance in the institutions strengthened". An individual was taken into custody at the end of February as part of this investigation, but was released without prosecution "after a few hours".
"Even in the absence of administration of any substance, the perpetrator of a sting in such circumstances could be charged with the offence of 'violence with a weapon', incurring a sentence of three years imprisonment, even in the absence of total incapacity to work, and with the same system of aggravation of the sentences", specified in a statement the prosecutor of Béziers, Raphaël Balland.
A certain psychosis takes hold of the world of the night, amplified by testimonies on social networks. For the Nantes prosecutor, the high number of complaints "can be explained both by a real increase in the facts and by the strong awareness actions carried out by the police services in recent days, in Nantes, with the managers of establishments".
Piqûres dans des boîtes de nuit : cinq questions sur un phénomène qui fait l'objet de plusieurs enquêtes en France
