The fight against this little-known scourge is taking a new turn.
MoDem MP Sandrine Josso will be entrusted with a government mission on the phenomenon of chemical submission,
Le Figaro
learned from those around her this Wednesday March 6.
“Official confirmation should be made very soon while we finalize some final details
,” we are assured.
“Chemical submission is the administration, for criminal or misdemeanor purposes, of a psychoactive substance without the victim's knowledge or under threat,”
Leïla Chaouachi, the expert rapporteur,
defined a few months ago in Le
Figaro
. which centralizes, under the aegis of the Paris addictovigilance center, all national cases claiming to be victims of this criminal trend.
In 2022, nearly 2,000 cases have been recorded throughout France.
That is 1,300 more than in 2021, and 1,500 more than in 2020.
Six months of work
As part of this government mission, Sandrine Josso will have six months to formulate recommendations to crack down on chemical submission.
The elected representative of Loire-Atlantique aims to better document the phenomenon, by measuring the effectiveness of existing systems, by precisely estimating the number of victims, and by contacting as many of them as possible, through associations notably.
The MP filed a complaint in January against Senator Joël Guerriau, whom she accuses of having drugged her without her knowledge during an evening at his home at the end of last year.
Since then, she has continued to question her parliamentary colleagues and the general public about the phenomenon, explaining in particular that
“it is a subject of public health, education and public order”
.
“I had a click that night, at the Lariboisière hospital
,” she declared to Le
Parisien
this Wednesday.
“I kept asking the caregivers questions: do you often see people like me?
How long does the drug stay in the body?
I was already on a mission.
It was my obligation to alert the government about this.”
Horizons senator from Loire-Atlantique Joël Guerriau was indicted and placed under judicial supervision for
“administration without a person's knowledge of a substance likely to impair their discernment or control of their actions, in order to commit rape or sexual assault, and possession and use of substances classified as narcotics.”