Almost 150 women who reported being drugs with syringes during the annual street music festival in France also awaits the results of toxicological tests to find out with which they were injected. For several years, outbreaks of such attacks have been recorded in France and the United Kingdom.
It was almost 1.30 in the morning, the crowd began to disperse on the streets of Bordeaux, when Manon, 22, felt the bite of a needle drilling his arm.
“Someone touched my left forearm. I started to feel numbness in the muscle, as when we took a vaccine. After about 30 minutes, the injection mark appeared,” the young woman told.
She is one of the young women who on the 21st referred to being and being Bad sense While participating in the feet of La Musique, an annual outdoor music festival that took place in villages and cities throughout France last weekend.
Not total, 145 people filed a complaint Because they were bitten, often in places with large crowds. In Paris alone, they were registered 13 casesamong which three victims aged 15 to 18, who were hospitalized after they feel bad
Manon and the remaining victims are now waiting for test results toxicological to determine with which substance were injected.
The French Interior Ministry did not confirm If the cases are linked to the phenomenon of “needle spiking“, Practice that involves clandestine injection of substances such as chemical submission drugs such as Rohypnol or GHB, in order to disabling victims for robberies or sexual abuse.
“Toxicological tests are being done and The investigation is underway“A ministry spokesman said, adding that the authorities are taking the matter“very seriously“. 12 suspectsbut so far no one has been accused.
According to the French influencer Abrège Sisterthe purpose of unidentified perpetrators “It’s not just drugs. Is installing fear“.
“When people begin to say that there will be needle attacks, they spread in the form of rumor-people mention it in chat groups, others catch the idea, and Simply amplifies“, it says.
Before the festival, Soeur had warned his followers that men on social networks were planning attacks with syringes – Without specifying any specific group of men and with which they intended to do so.
There was similar outbreaks of attacks previously reported in France in the feet of La Musique of 2022 and in the United Kingdom in October 2021when the nightclubs reopened and the students returned to the university after the confinements of the Covid pandemic, recalls.
In February 2022, the British police had received More than 1,300 reports of bites with needles in the previous six months, without a single case confirmed or conviction.
“Social Panic”
As said in 2022, “Reports are always the same: one Invisible striker; Traces of a needle bite on the armbuttocks or back; symptoms of variable intensity, such as headaches, or vomiting,… and toxicological analyzes that prove negative“.
There may be a element of “social panic” In these reports of needles bites, he says: In 2022, young people were afraid of vaccines, concern about conveying Covid to someone vulnerable, and the fault of having fun.
In the fall of 2021, shocking reports appeared throughout Britain over a New danger for young women: o “needle spiking”.
Typically, the victim was in a disco with friends, when he reported feeling dizzy after consuming a small amount of alcohol. He fainted and was taken home or to the hospital by his friends. The next day, I had difficulty remembering what happened.
Later, after examining their bodies, many claimed to have found a needle, scratch or black stain which was presumed to be a place of injection.
Shortly after the first reports, the young women have submitted to social networks to share their experiences, along with photographs of apparent puncture wounds. Groups were formed to Alert to the “Needle Spiking” dangers.
Politicians appealed to investigations, and in February 2022, more than 1300 had been made to the police during the previous 6 months.
After years of investigations to these cases, There is not yet a conclusion clear about if they are Organized attacks with malevolent intuits, a merely misogynistic game, or Simply “Collective Paranoia“.
Anterior outbreaks of cases of needle bites were linked to social fears, such as HIV transmission. In 1998, a “Urban Legend” in Canada It involved young people on night outputs that would be chopped with contaminated needles, and then found a note in their pockets saying, “Welcome to the world of AIDS“.
In recent incidents in France, some bites eventually turned out to have been caused by toothpicks – and some were mosquito bitessays the. But, the newspaper highlights, Some cases were even confirmed like syringes of syringes.
French police are considering the theory that publications on social networks about pIar women as a game so much may have given rise to syringes of syringes by ‘joke’as taken to cases where the attacks were actually just imaginary.
In either case, justice and police currently have the means to identify the perpetrators of these types of publications, who will not be probably professional terrorists shielded by sophisticated VPNs and IPS triangulation networks – and perhaps it is at the time of end the game.
