Like France, the United Kingdom also faces the use of the “date rape drug” in the evening, prompting students to launch a boycott of bars.
All this week, British students and young women have launched a wave of bar boycotts and protests to fight against evening GHB use. As in Grenoble or Tours in France, many British students have alerted the authorities to the rise in the number of cases of suspected drug intoxication of the rapist. For some time, young women have reported “Needle sticks” report The Washington Post, suspecting predators of unwittingly drugging them by injection, in addition to the already known drug-in-the-drink method.
British police data show 56 reports of injection drug use in the past two months, as well as 198 reports of intoxication from a drink that had been drugged. In response to this disturbing phenomenon, many women launched the Night In movement. On Wednesday, October 27, they decided to launch a vast boycott of bars and clubs in the cities in which incidents were reported in an attempt to get people moving. things. A new boycott is expected in London on November 5, and more protests are expected to follow.
Alert and train nightlife personnel
Thanks to this boycott, the British hope to move the lines and push to put in place new devices. Among the measures proposed, a better search at the entrance of bars and nightclubs, the provision of lids for drinks, but also the awareness and training of the personnel of the places concerned on these issues. In Oxford and Nottingham, in particular, nightclubs have decided to close their doors to show their support for female students. On social networks, the Night In movement has generated various accounts, for each city concerned, in order to communicate on upcoming events but also on ways to protect yourself.
In addition to the desire to alert and motivate the implementation of new measures, this protest movement is also a way of showing their solidarity with each other in the face of these actions.
Article written in collaboration with 6medias