A phenomenon that remains “without tangible explanation”. Fifteen investigations have been opened since December and entrusted to the departmental security of Rennes after reports of bites, mainly affecting women, the prosecution said on Wednesday. “Fifteen procedures have been recorded at the Rennes prosecutor’s office since December 10, 2021, in night establishments in Rennes (night bar, nightclubs or concert hall), involving 14 women and one man”, according to the prosecutor of the Republic of Rennes Philippe Astruc.
According to the magistrate, these investigations established “a single discomfort, a single presence of a suspicious person at the time of the injection, no attempted theft or sexual assault afterwards”.
No person implicated
These bites are “most often on the upper body (back or arms)” while “no biological analysis revealed any suspicious substance”, adds Philippe Astruc, specifying however that there had been no results of all analyses.
“To date, no one has therefore been implicated with regard to this phenomenon, which remains without tangible explanation”, notes the prosecutor. Cases of bites have been reported during concerts at the Printemps de Bourges and recently in nightclubs, notably in Béziers, Grenoble, Périgueux or Nantes.
Tuesday, France Bleu also reported that three complaints had been filed concerning facts of the same type, in recent weeks in Saint-Malo, in the same department. A boy and a girl of 18 and 19 claim to have been stung during a night out in a disco and to have suffered from vomiting and loss of memory afterwards.