Stings in nightclubs: the Béziers prosecutor calls on the victims to come forward “without delay” to the authorities

As cases multiply in the four corners of France, the enigma of nightclub injections thickens.

In Nantes, Grenoble or Béziers, gendarmes and police have recently recorded complaints from men and women who claim to have been bitten without their knowledge.

While mostly the victims were not robbed or sexually abused, many describe a

comparable

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In Béziers, where nine complaints were filed for acts committed on the night of April 17 to 18 in two nightlife establishments, the public prosecutor Raphaël Balland considers it "

" that potential victims "

”.

A need to act quickly insofar as certain products such as GHB, also known as the "

", are no longer detectable in the human body after just a few hours.

Up to ten years imprisonment

And the prosecutor recalls that "

.

A flagrancy investigation was entrusted on April 18 to the Béziers police station in co-referral with the territorial management of the Montpellier judicial police to the head of "administration of harmful substances".

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The administration of harmful substances, even in the absence of total incapacity for work, incurs its author a penalty of up to three years' imprisonment.

The penalties are increased according to the physical consequences and the circumstances and in particular the use of a needle (weapon by destination), the premeditation inherent in such facts or even if several people have acted together, as perpetrators or accomplices, the penalty incurred up to seven years' imprisonment, or even ten years in the event of total incapacity for work for more than eight days.

It being specified that even in the absence of administration of any substance, the author of an injection in such circumstances could be charged with the offense of violence with a weapon, causing him to incur a three-year prison sentence. , even in the absence of total incapacity for work, and with the same system of aggravation of penalties.