Young women in Spain alarmed by the mysterious needle sticks with which they are injured in the nightlife clubs, suddenly and without even having time to see the person in charge who vanishes in the crowd.
Girls often reported similar symptoms: dizziness and vomiting.
But tests done in hospitals so far have not detected drugs and tests are negative for any toxin.
In Catalonia - says the Pais - 23 complaints have already arrived but the phenomenon has spread throughout Spain, with a dozen exhibits in the Basque Country, followed by Andalusia, Castilla-La Mancha, Asturias, Cantabria and the Balearic Islands.
The police said they did not know the intentions of the perpetrators.
A 20-year-old from Cadiz said she went to a party last Saturday asking a friend to accompany her.
While they were looking for a bathroom moving in the very crowded environment, the friend started screaming saying she was stung: "she saw the guy who did it, he was dressed in black and had a syringe in his hand".
Then the police came, the place was closed and another young woman showed up saying she was stung.
The president of the Generalitat Pere Aragonès expressed concern about the increase in cases and called on citizens to "watch and denounce" in the face of attacks that are causing "anguish and insecurity".
"This is not a question of women when they party, this challenges everyone",
The yellow of the bites had already emerged months ago in clubs in Belgium, France, the United Kingdom and Ireland.
The British parliament even produced a report in which it analyzed the wave of complaints filed by women in the autumn of last year, with 1,382 cases between September 2021 and January 2022, between nightlife and parties.
In France, more than 800 exhibits have been presented up to June 16.
In Catalonia the Mossos d'Esquadra investigate case by case, they do not exclude that they are tourists from France, where the bites have aroused fear in recent months.
Most of the young women were spiked in the same city, in Lloret de Mar, in Girona: "Maybe they do it for fun", commented police sources in the face of a phenomenon that distresses women and even researchers, with fear that the situation gets worse.