The Franc’s Immeasurably popular Fetes de Musique festival changed into a nightmarish event and nearly 145 people around France had to suffer the result of a clandestine gang who is currently under investigation to conduct what can now be called syringe attacks on random concertgoers around the country. In a report available in the New York Post, the police have arrested twelve individuals over the incidents.
Even though the police and the surrounding authorities do not seem any nearer to knowing what exactly was being injected through the syringes, a PEOPLE report indicates the elaborate planning that could have possibly been involved in raising such level of mayhem. According to the said report, social media threats had been going around long before up to 145 unsuspecting persons have been ambushed by the attackers: “The report said Le Monde reported that Snapchat, and other social media sites contained posts encouraging an attack on women in advance of the festival”.
The Le Monde report also noted to explicitly elaborate on the fact that Paris is the capital of France and even this city had as high as 13 cases. Metz exceeded it with 17 reports, and various hospitalisations were also reported, and the most appropriate response to the case would be toxicology testing of high quality. The efforts that the police have made in this regard however but, are not yet exhausted. Rest of the 12 who were arrested, are said to have only pricked 50 victims. Even more attackers, responsible of the nearly 100 other victims, remain to be traced.
This event has probably affected the manner in which the phenomenal Fete de la Musique will be treated in the years to come and in some way, these coordinated attacks have put its legacy-accompanied position to some kind of siege. Introduced in 1982, Fete de la Musique takes place every year on the June 21 to encourage citizens to play music on the streets. Paris authorities reported that they were having an unprecedented crowd according to Le Monde. Investigation began following three patients in the city who had complained of feeling ill and said that they had been injected with the use of a syringe.
This case is still unfolding.
Nearly 150 Report Being Jabbed With Needles at France Music Festival
On Sunday, French health authorities reported that 145 people around the country including 13 in Paris had been reported to have been stuck with needles at an annual countrywide music festival on Saturday. Twelve suspects were in custody because of the stabbings.
The ministry said that some of the victims were taken to the hospital to perform toxicological testing. French authorities gave no information about those who were arrested or what substances the syringes might have had in it.
Although the victims were not many when compared to the millions of individuals who have attended Fete de la Musique activities in France, reports are part of many reported incidents in the recent past where people have been reported to have been injected, seemingly unknowingly and without their consent, in places like clubs or bars.
According to a report published by the British Parliament in 2022 following a recent flood of spiking reports, cases of needle attacks in the country have exceeded 1,000 in the period starting September 2021 to the end of December 2022. In the report, nearly 3,000 victims and witnesses of needle spiking were surveyed and police data stressed that needle spiking occurred in the evening predominantly in pubs and nightclubs, however, some also involved at festivals and house parties, with an estimate of close to 90 percent.
The report said that it could not develop the general prevalence of needle spiking due to insufficient data and many more cases might not be reported.
The Fete de la Musique has been celebrated in France over forty years annually. (musicians, amateur level through professional) are invited to play on the sidewalks, in parks and other locations all day on June 21 the summer solstice – and there are free concert events nationwide and also in France and overseas territories.
Le Monde and other French media reports that there were social media posts calling to such attacks on women before the festival.
Laurent Nunez, the prefect of police in Paris told an interview on the French national news channel CNews that the police was taking reports with seriousness, but also with caution. This phenomenal, he added, is not new. On Monday regional newspaper La Voix du Nord in northern France reported that one girl claiming to have been stuck with a needle seemed after further inspection to have been scratched.
Even in a drinking spiking, which is another type of drugging of people, there is toxicological analysis which has revealed that an extremely limited percentage of drinks that people suspect were spiked actually happen to get spiked, according to him. In the same measure the police have only very rarely been able to confirm that a drug has entered the body with a needle-spiking process, he maintained.
Dr. Winstock also warned that not all the reports in France might have been phobia but panic when the news of the stabbings reached the news. What could be happening is that a group of people gets hold of something that they have heard has happened to another person until there is toxicological evidence, he said. It does not mean your body is being injected with a drug because you have a sharp stab.
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