#Balancetonbar, a movement to fight rapist drugs

Hundreds of women made their voices heard on Friday 12 November in Brussels (Belgium). Their movement, #Balancetonbar, denounces sexual assaults against women in festive places. Dozens of young women claim to have been drugged in nightclubs and bars in the Belgian capital. In France too, the hashtag Balancetonbar pushes women to break the silence, like Margaux, a student in Lille (North). On November 5, an evening in a bar turns into a nightmare. “I have a drink and wake up in the hospital”, she confided on November 10.

Thanks to the medical report and an online call for witnesses, Margaux somehow reconstructs the course of that sordid night. “The boy I was with started to get aggressive, saying: ‘you are going to call nobody, she is my girlfriend, I manage her, she has already been in a worse state than that’, whereas me this boy, I did not know him “, she says. Has she been poisoned with GHB said rapist drug, an almost impossible substance To detect and which disappears in less than 12 hours? The many complaints rarely succeed, for lack of tangible elements or memories specific enough to prove the assault. To avoid drama, bar owners sell a cover to put on the glasses.