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VIDEO. "Anti-bite" descent in a nightclub in Roanne

2022-05-14T18:01:56.517Z


About thirty police officers carried out a surprise check, Saturday May 14 around 1 a.m., in a nightclub in Roanne (Loire), looking for


Lights on and music muted inside Le T dansant, a nightclub in Roanne.

It is 1 a.m. this Saturday, May 14, when around thirty police officers deploy to search the customers of this discotheque, in search of suspicious syringes or needles as part of an “anti-bite” raid.

"It won't last long, I promise you, we'll be back to the music soon" assures the DJ at the microphone.

For about twenty minutes, the police identify the identities, empty the pockets and conduct pat-downs.

The approximately 80 customers present in the establishment in the city center comply with good grace to the surprise control operation carried out, a little after one o'clock in the morning, on the night of Friday to Saturday.

"It's weird to see a nightclub all on, all the lights on, it's like being in a restaurant," says Bastien, a customer in his fifties.

“Hello atmosphere!

grumbles the manager of the T Dansant, Jérôme Bonnefoy.

"It's not as if we hadn't already had two rotten years," he quips, alluding to the long parenthesis of the health crisis.

But for Dylan, a young blonde with a crew cut, "it's normal because of everything that happens with the bites".

The operation aims to "show that the police and the prosecution are on the ground and particularly vigilant" in the face of the mysterious phenomenon which has been affecting and worrying the nocturnal and festive world in France for several months, explains the public prosecutor of Roanne. , Abdelkrim Grini,

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The unexplained wave of bites has affected nightclubs, bars and festivals across the country in recent months, with complaints lodged from Lille to Béziers and from Lorient to Grenoble, via Lyon, Besançon or Valence.

A total of 250 people have come forward to the police saying they were bitten.

Some victims report side effects such as nausea, dizziness, chills or even seizures.

Others say they "felt nothing", like this 18-year-old high school student who filed a complaint after being bitten on April 22 at the T Dansant where she was celebrating a birthday with friends.

"I was accompanying a friend to the toilet when a boy touched my buttocks," said the young girl.

She discovered on returning home “a large hematoma with a sting with a red dot in the center on the right buttock”.

She immediately went to the hospital, which gave her preventive anti-HIV and anti-hepatic treatments.

A judicial investigation was opened for "premeditated violence and premeditated administration of a harmful substance", an offense punishable by three years in prison.

And the high school student decided not to go back to the nightclub: “I erased the word from my head, I don't think I'll go back.

We are much better in evenings with friends that we know.

Dylan, he comes to the T Dansant, even if “we think about it a little deep down in the unconscious”.

A judicial investigation was opened for "premeditated violence and premeditated administration of a harmful substance", an offense punishable by three years in prison.

And the high school student decided not to go back to the nightclub: “I erased the word from my head, I don't think I'll go back.

We are much better in evenings with friends that we know.

Dylan, he comes to the T Dansant, even if “we think about it a little deep down in the unconscious”.

A judicial investigation was opened for "premeditated violence and premeditated administration of a harmful substance", an offense punishable by three years in prison.

And the high school student decided not to go back to the nightclub: “I erased the word from my head, I don't think I'll go back.

We are much better in evenings with friends that we know.

Dylan, he comes to the T Dansant, even if “we think about it a little deep down in the unconscious”.

In the Loire, there are around twenty complaints, four nightclubs out of the thirty in the department are concerned, according to figures from the prefecture and the Union of Trades and Industries of the Hotel Industry (UMIH).

Nightclub owners are trying to organize themselves, checking the contents of customers' bags and pockets or reinforcing video surveillance while the authorities mobilize to provide answers while worrying about the risk of psychosis.

The Loire prefecture organized a coordination meeting on Friday with representatives of the police, the gendarmerie and the night sector.

For the prosecutor of Roanne, it is important to be "in the field of prevention by attracting the attention of young people", letting them know "that they must be vigilant,

that they have to be careful because unfortunately this phenomenon of wild bites is not going away”.

For the rest, the operation at T Dansant did not reveal any suspect syringes or needles, the analyzes of a vial found under a bench seat showed that they were poppers.

Source: leparis

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