145 people at France music festival report being pricked with syringes after online calls to target women
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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.
The people planning this and walking around doing the pricking...
There's a classic death metal song by Cannibal Corpse called "Hammer Smashed Face".
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Jesus Fucking Christ, Paris
This could literally have happened anywhere
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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.
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?
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This could literally have happened anywhere
It was happening on the NYC subway some years back, people were poking people with syringes contaminated with HIV
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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?
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.
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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.
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.
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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?
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
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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
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.
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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.
This is a panic that has come and gone multiple times even just during my lifetime. I remember the first time I heard about it was visitors to neighboring Tijuana with HIV infected blood on the 80s.
Never once has it actually been confirmed to have happened.These are 145 self reports. Nothing confirmed. No video evidence.
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Is that what they say once they get caught, or do they tell that story just in case they get caught in the future?
There are many more dumb assholes than rapists. I believe people who do this just for fun, not for rape, do exist. It's quite terrible anyway.
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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.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]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.
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This is a panic that has come and gone multiple times even just during my lifetime. I remember the first time I heard about it was visitors to neighboring Tijuana with HIV infected blood on the 80s.
Never once has it actually been confirmed to have happened.These are 145 self reports. Nothing confirmed. No video evidence.
Of course the 145 police reports don't count. This is 145 women were talking about.
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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.
Nah, plenty of SA happening in Boston bars, and has been for like 10 years now in this recent “wave” where incidents have been increasing.
Motherfuckers just never knew how to have a good time.
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Of course the 145 police reports don't count. This is 145 women were talking about.
During the 80s example I gave it was men that were reporting it.
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Of course the 145 police reports don't count. This is 145 women were talking about.
Anyone can file a police report. And if they believe they were a victim then they are more likely to do that.
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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.
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.
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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.
In some time periods in some places in the world, getting a hand cut off was punishment for theft. While that is a bit extreme, maybe assholes convicted of this should lose the final knuckle of their pinky finger as punishment for drugging people at bars.
It should be something easy to see. Part of the advantage of cutting off someone's hand isn't just the punishment, it's a marker that a person is a thief that they can't get rid of. Ideally it'd be something obvious and easy to see, that's also uncommon enough naturally that you know what happened.
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This is a panic that has come and gone multiple times even just during my lifetime. I remember the first time I heard about it was visitors to neighboring Tijuana with HIV infected blood on the 80s.
Never once has it actually been confirmed to have happened.These are 145 self reports. Nothing confirmed. No video evidence.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Last time I heard about this it was all over Facebook and shit.
Then the government, police and drs came out and said there was no evidence and when you think about it it doesn't make any sense.
Honestly how many women have you seen smash way way too many drinks and claim they got spiked. No you weigh fuck all, you were smashing drinks, thats why you can't stand. We've all drank too much.
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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.
We also have those Christian holidays in France, and fête de la musique is just one evening, not a holiday. But it is on the longest daylight day of the year, so that's nice.
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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.
Article said cops were injured but didn't give details.
