While the pitting phenomenon seems to appear at each large gathering, festivals, music festivals and patronal festivals, the mayor, the sub-prefect and the prosecutor of Bayonne, presented this Tuesday a device to accompany possible victims during the Bayonne festivals which will be held from July 27 to 31. If the authorities say they do not want to take this phenomenon lightly, the Bayonne prosecutor Jérôme Bourrier deemed it necessary to “appease“the population facing a”psychosis“which has largely developed on”social networks“.
Sting victims cared for at Glain Advance Medical Post
A prevention device will thus be set up at the Bayonne festivals, at the Glain advanced medical post, located along the Adour. People who have been victims of potential stings will have to present themselves there in order to be taken care of. The Bayonne prosecutor Jérôme Bourrier specifies that these victims will be the subject of a “verification with regard to two criteria: that there is a proven sting confirmed medically, and that the victim presents serious symptoms. At that time, samples will be taken on site to verify the possible reality of an injection.“.
Beware of rumors and psychosis says prosecutor
The Bayonne prosecutor Jérôme Bourrier, however, wanted to take stock of the cases in progress, and on the “psychosis” that exists around this subject. Indeed, according to the magistrate: “we can clearly see on social networks that there are a lot of rather unreasonable rumors going around each time about the extent of the phenomenon, the number of people who were bitten at a party, and the consequences. I can certify that on the jurisdiction of the Bayonne court, there is no person who has found himself in a coma due to an injection associated with a sting to date. None of them were associated with an attempted rape“.
Currently, about thirty investigations are in progress, and if people were really victims of stings, the returns of toxicological analyzes proved to be negative. However, the simple fact of stinging someone, even without administering a harmful substance, is a crime, recalls the prosecutor. A misdemeanor capable of being qualified as “gun violence by destination“and who can be punishable by 3 years imprisonment.