Arrests After Syringe Attack To 100+ People At Music Festival In Paris, France

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French police have detained 12 suspects after 145 people reported being pricked with syringes during the country’s annual street music festival this weekend.

Millions of people took to the streets across Franceon Saturday evening for the Fête de la Musique, with authorities reporting “unprecedented crowds” in Paris.

The feminist influencer Abrège Soeur warned online before the festival that calls had been made on social media for women to be targeted with syringes. It was not certain where such posts would have been made or by whom.

The interior ministry said 145 victims across the country had reported being stabbed with needles during outdoor music events across the country. Paris police reported 13 cases in the capital.

Officials did not say if these were cases of so-called needle spiking with date-rape drugs such as Rohypnol or GHB, used by attackers to render victims confused or unconscious and vulnerable to sexual assault.

“Some victims were taken to hospital for toxicological tests,” the ministry said.

In Paris, investigations were opened after three people, including a 15-year-old girl and an 18-year-old male, reported being stabbed in separate incidents across Paris, prosecutors said. All three reported feeling unwell.

Across France, 12 suspects have been arrested, the interior ministry said. Among them were four people in the south-western city of Angoulême suspected of having targeted about 50 victims, a police source said.

Two men were also arrested in the centre of the north-eastern city of Metz on suspicion of syringe attacks. The regional public broadcaster France 3 reported that one man had been caught with a syringe and a woman who complained of being stabbed with one had recognised the other.

The local prosecutor’s office in Metz said the alleged victims were believed to be under 18. One of the alleged suspects, a man aged 20, was previously known to police for violence.

The renewed fears of syringe attacks come as Paris prepares for its summer music festival season.

There was a wave of reports in 2022 about alleged syringe attacks against women and men in clubs, bars, music events and even theatres. The government put out messages at the time for people going out at night to be vigilant and advising them that they should go immediately to the police and also have a toxicology test if they thought they had been drugged by a syringe prick.

Agence France-Presse reported on a 2022 police memo stating that syringe marks were generally on the arms, buttocks or back, without victims seeing the alleged attacker.

More than 370 people were detained during this weekend’s nationwide music festival on various charges, including nearly 90 people in Paris.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/23/france-syringe-attacks-street-music-festival-fete-de-la-musique

[RebeldeFaith 5,759]

WTF?! 

[Lord Mayhem 3,430]

Could you imagine if those had been laced with a deadly virus or lethal drug like fentanyl??? 

[Shadow 6,697]

Watch yourselves at concerts if nutjobs are doing this...

[Chromanne 2,608]

51 minutes ago, Lord Mayhem said:

Could you imagine if those had been laced with a deadly virus or lethal drug like fentanyl??? 

More realistically, HIV  This has happened before

[Pigatha 1,336]

13 minutes ago, Chromanne said:

More realistically, HIV  This has happened before

Yep, A few months ago a man stabbed a child with one and infected them with HIV, which is just ultra evil. 

[Mars 2,658]

This was happening in Berlin clubs for a while, very scary. At least in clubs security can check people before they enter.

[NemoMyName 2,195]

I remember reading this happened sometime ago on a festival

[Bonkers 30,860]

This makes me *really* nervous 

I've been secretly giving people the covid vaccine and now I'm wondering if I might get in trouble for my charity work. 

 

[alsemanche 97,806]

The fact that I was there  lemme check for syringe stabs real quick brb

[alsemanche 97,806]

Omay also, was anyone actually infected with anything or is it just alleged attacks? I feel like I hear about this every other year and it never actually leads to anything

[Lextyr97 20,796]

Seriously WHY do people do these things??

[Guillaume Hamon 6,992]

16 minutes ago, alsemanche said:

Omay also, was anyone actually infected with anything or is it just alleged attacks? I feel like I hear about this every other year and it never actually leads to anything

Same.

[Shadow 6,697]

Flashback: Astroworld security guard pricked in neck with needle, Houston police say (2021)

A “needle” wielding assailant suspected of injecting at least one person with a possible opioid may have sparked the panic that killed at least eight people and injured 300 others during a stampede at rapper Travis Scott’s concert in Houston, authorities said Saturday. 

 

It was different since one person was attacked with a needle, but it is what started the stampede that killed 8 and hurt 300.