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French police have detained 12 suspects after 145 people reported being pricked with syringes during the country's annual street music festival, officials said Sunday.

Millions of people took to the streets across France on Saturday evening for the Fete de la Musique, with authorities reporting "unprecedented crowds" in Paris.

Before the party, posts on social media had called for women to be targeted during the festivities.

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[–] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 51 points 1 day ago (3 children)

called for women to be targeted during the festivities

Do we know more? Was this supposed to just scare them or did they actually get injected with something?

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Super frustrating article to read.

[–] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 10 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Fucking tell me about it 😂

[–] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 5 points 21 hours ago

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[–] TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone 32 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Officials did not say if these were cases of so-called needle spiking with date-rape drugs such as Rohypnol or GHB

Some victims were taken to hospital for toxicological tests

investigations were opened after three people... reported feeling unwell.

[–] 6nk06@sh.itjust.works 2 points 18 hours ago

reported feeling unwell

Knowing what happens every year, they were drunk and paranoid.

[–] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

after three people... reported feeling unwell.

Well that's fair enough at any rate. So maybe at least this didn't get anyone seriously injured.

[–] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Article said cops were injured but didn't give details.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 5 points 23 hours ago

Cops love to dramatize exposure to any kind of drug. Case in point, a series of hoax claims about police nearly dying from mere proximity to fentanyl.

[–] HuskerNation@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

10-15 years ago it was definitely a thing. I remember posts about it on reddit, back when reddit was good. Eventually after it blew up a lot of bars started doing the angel drinks or messages in the bathroom. Bunch of women were targeted

[–] bytesonbike@discuss.online 14 points 1 day ago

Yep. In the 2000s, my town had a serious scare. I lived in a small town at the time near a major music fest, and the town handed out flyers about watching yourself because we had a bunch of roofie incidents.

One festival mocked our town for it and called us assholes/cops. Because that festival were like pro date-rape or some shit? Festival doesn't exist anymore.

But I'll never forget how many naive tourist girls who would get the flyer, laugh, and go, "Why would anyone do this haha!" And don't take this stuff seriously.

I feel like social media has been a huge help at identifying shit behavior.