At least nine women attending a party of the German Social Democratic Party, attended by Chancellor Olaf Scholz, were drugged with substances known as "date rape drugs", the SPD said.

“The excitement is quite great,” a spokesperson for the Social Democratic parliamentary group told AFP, confirming information from the Berlin daily Tagesspiegel.

“I advise all those concerned to file a complaint,” also wrote on Twitter an official of the parliamentary group, Katja Mast.

Nine victims have been listed so far but the spokesman did not rule out that there are more.

In an e-mail addressed to the participants in this summer party which was held on Wednesday evening near the chancellery, the SPD denounced “a monstrous act which was immediately reported by us to the police of the Bundestag”.

About a thousand people took part in the traditional SPD summer party before the parliamentary summer break, including the chancellor but also many deputies and their collaborators.

“You could only enter by invitation”

“It was an internal event.

You could only enter by invitation, ”said the spokesperson.

“There are still a lot of uncertainties, the police are investigating”.

Berlin police say they are investigating serious bodily harm after a 21-year-old woman filed a complaint against X.

"Date rape drugs", which generally cause nausea and dizziness, refer to different mind-altering substances usually poured into people's drinks and then abused by violence, theft or sexual assault.

In 2021, in Berlin, a city of celebration and sometimes excess, 22 cases of assault with "rape drugs" were recorded by the police, according to the daily Berliner Zeitung.

Their actual number, however, is believed to be much higher, with many victims having very little memory of their assault or feeling ashamed to file a complaint.

In addition last year, clubs, discos and other places of festivities in the capital remained closed for a large part of the year due to the pandemic.

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