145 people at the France Music Festival report that they are punctured with syringes after online calls to attack women

Paris – The French police have arrested 12 suspects after 145 people reported having been punctured with syringes during the annual street music festival of the country, authorities said on Sunday.

Millions of people took to the streets of France on Saturday night for the fete of the Musique, and the authorities reported “unprecedented crowds” in Paris.

Before the party, publications in Social networks had asked women to be attacked During the festivities.

The Interior Ministry said that 145 victims throughout the country reported having been stabbed with needles. Paris Police reported 13 cases in the capital.

The authorities did not say if these were cases of calls Date rape drug needle such as Rohypnol or GHB, used by attackers to make victims confuse or unconscious and vulnerable to sexual aggression. There was a State of such attacks in the United Kingdom and several other European nations about three years ago.

“Some victims were taken to the hospital for toxicological tests,” said the French Interior Ministry.

In Paris, investigations were opened after three people, including a 15 -year -old girl and an 18 -year -old man, reported being stabbed in separate incidents throughout Paris, prosecutors said. The three reported feeling bad.

Throughout France, 12 suspects have been arrested, the Interior Ministry said. Among them there were four people in the southwest city of Angouleme suspicious of having attacked about 50 victims, a police source said.

In addition to those suspects, more than 370 people were arrested during the festival for several positions, including almost 90 people in Paris.

Fourteen participants in the festivities were seriously injured, including a 17 -year -old boy who was hospitalized after being found sitting on the street with a white weapon wounds at the bottom of the abdomen.

Thirteen police members were also injured.

The Paris Police Prefect, Laurent Núñez, said that “no important incident has been reported.”

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