a man arrested in the Var after several complaints

In the middle of a concert in Toulon (Var), Friday June 3, spectators are suddenly panicked. “There was really a crowd movement and we hear: ‘Watch out, there’s someone stinging in the middle!’ Everyone checks on his legs, (…) on his arms“, says Léyna Nomari, spectator of the concert, who discovered a trace of puncture on one of her thighs, the next day. That same evening, about twenty people were stung. A suspect was arrested by the police.

“This individual was immediately identified by three plaintiffs as carrying a syringe, and by one plaintiff as having given a syringe“, indicates Samuel Finielz, public prosecutor in Toulon (Var). Aged 20, he is imprisoned for aggravated violence. Throughout France, nearly 400 incidents of this type have been recorded since February. establishment owners and the police multiply the controls, and ask to systematically lodge a complaint.