The mystery remains intact.
More than 800 complaints, 1,098 victims identified throughout the territory, in bars, nightclubs, festivals, but no leads.
The investigators are in great difficulty to explain this phenomenon of bites in the evening.
In a summary note from the DGPN dated June 7, the editors mention “an operator mode” that does not distinguish between men and women.
The bite marks are located on "the arms", "the buttocks", "the back", without the victims seeing their attacker.
The note cites “immediate effects” but also “delayed effects” of bites with sometimes “marks of bruises”.
The symptoms are varied and range from "headaches" to "hot flashes" to "dizziness" or even "loss of consciousness".
But the victims do not act "sexual assault or theft following the sting", we assured the DGPN, which leaves us perplexed about the motivations of the perpetrators.
“No trace of GHB”
"When the acts are reported, samples are taken as a priority" even before the filing of a complaint.
So far, the analyzes entrusted to the technical and scientific police have found "no trace of GHB", a drug popular with rapists but which metabolizes very quickly.
It was added that the toxicology analyzes had sometimes revealed "a blood alcohol level" and / or "traces of cannabis" which the victim had admitted to consumption.
In a census carried out by the Office for the fight against drug trafficking (Ofast) established on June 16, it is reported "about 850 reported facts", knowing that a fact can relate to several bites during the same event (concert, etc.).
Ofast has been in charge, for several days, of centralizing “the number of facts and the qualitative elements”, but if investigations were to lead to the highlighting of organized trafficking, the office would seize the JIRS (Specialized Interregional Jurisdiction ) concerned, we added to the DGPN.
461 victims of wild bites recorded, the worrying wave continues
51 people victims of savage bites during the feria
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