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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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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 23 points 10 hours ago

Oh cool. We're doing another needle panic

Britian went through this just three years earlier.

Their experiences were shared on social media, along with photographs of apparent puncture wounds. Groups were formed to warn of the dangers of needle spiking, politicians called for investigations, and by February 2022, over 1,300 reports of needle spiking had been made to police over the previous 6 months (Wynn-Davies, 2022).

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Many victims claimed they only had a few drinks and were not drunk. However, an Australian study of suspected incidents of drink spiking found that self-reports of alcohol consumption are often unreliable. One 17-year-old girl was taken to hospital after having only one glass of vodka. However, on further questioning, she ‘remembered’ having beer and whisky. The study also analyzed the blood and urine of patients who presented at hospital emergency departments. Of 97 patients, none had traces of a sedative in their systems (Quigley et al., 2009).

[–] xiwi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 14 hours ago

Jfc what the fuck

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 32 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

People have different definitions of major incidents apparently...

"including a 17-year-old who was hospitalized after being found sitting on the street with stab wounds to the lower abdomen."

"The prefect of the Paris police, Laurent Nunez, said that "no major incident has been reported.""

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 10 hours ago

A single person being stabbed isn't a "major incident" if you're the chief of police or whatever a prefect is.

[–] kerrigan778@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I believe (and hope) that it's just ambiguously written, the first part is discussing incidents throughout the country while the prefect was obviously just talking about Paris.

A lot of oddly worded bits in that article.

[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Journalists write like garbage these days.

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

~~Journalists~~ AI write like garbage these days.

[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 13 points 16 hours ago

Could someone please shoot whoever wrote the headline?

[–] 96VXb9ktTjFnRi@feddit.nl 59 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Aside from the pricking scandal, what a fantastic idea.

On "Fête de la Musique" people are urged to play music outside.

Here my country is stuck with Christian holidays that noone remembers the meaning of.

[–] funkforager@sh.itjust.works 46 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It’s a GREAT festival. Super fun. Every neighborhood you can just walk around and there are little stages of groups or solo musicians performing. Free and just kind of everywhere. Good vibes. Very pedestrian friendly.

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

I do that most evenings. Around 5 pm, I sit on my porch and play my guitar, watching the pond across from my house, and listening to the birds sing.

Sitting in a rocker on a front porch, playing guitar on a warm summer evening, is one of Life's greatest, and most perfect, pleasures.

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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 176 points 1 day ago (14 children)

Tangentially, I was chatting with the owner of my local pub in Boston recently, and apparently it’s become something of a game (?!?!?!?!?) to try to slip people mickeys around here. As in, just see if you can sneak it into the drink, with no real intent of abuse or rape or whatever - just to see if you can do it.

I fucking hate humans sometimes.

[–] General_Effort@lemmy.world 0 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

People are giving out free drugs to anyone? Oh no! Kudos to this brave person for speaking out with no regard for what that might do to their own business.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] General_Effort@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Just a joke. People rarely give away drugs without expecting something in return. Even on Halloween.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

People “give away” date rape drugs all the time.

[–] General_Effort@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

...expecting sex "in return".

[–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 4 points 15 hours ago (3 children)
[–] TallonMetroid@lemmy.world 14 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[–] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 2 points 10 hours ago

It's much darker than what I thought. For me a mickey is a booger.

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