An investigation was opened following the complaint of a young girl in her twenties claiming to have been stung on the night of Thursday to last Friday in a straw hut in Furiani (Haute-Corse), learned the AFP Wednesday, June 1 with the prosecutor of Bastia.
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She said she had “dizziness“Following this possible sting which would have taken place around 1:30 am, clarified to AFP Arnaud Viornery, public prosecutor of Bastia who opened an investigation for administration of harmful substance entrusted to the gendarmerie. “We remain cautious because the first toxicological analyzes turned out to be negative, so we sent other samples to the continent for further analysis.“, specified the prosecutor. The friends of the person concerned present at the supposed time of the facts were heard “but no one saw anything“, he added.
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An unexplained wave of stings has affected nightclubs, bars and festivals across France in recent months, with complaints lodged from Lille to Béziers (Hérault) and from Lorient (Morbihan) to Strasbourg, via Grenoble, Nancy, Lyon, Besançon or Valence. Similar events were denounced last fall in the United Kingdom with a wave of testimonies from students drugged without their knowledge by injections in nightclubs.
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