00:01145 people have been reported being assaulted with syringes during this year's Fête de la Musique Festival in France,
00:09with the targets being mainly young women.
00:12Several people have been hospitalized after being stabbed, and 12 suspects have been detained.
00:19This is a great phenomenon, even more than the previous years.
00:22It has been optimized by this call on social networks to bite women during the Fête de la Musique.
00:30And another sanitary risk is also to bite women, especially if these syringes are passed from hand to hand.
00:40Officials have yet to say if these were cases of needles spiking with date rape drugs, such as Rohypnol or GHB.
00:47France's Interior Ministry has said it is taking the incident, quote, very seriously, and that an investigation is ongoing.
