Dance floor needle attacks baffle French police
Alarm is spreading on dance floors across France following needle attacks on dozens of young people in nightclubs, with police in the dark as to the assailants’ identity or motives. The victims, who are mostly women, report the sudden onset of identical symptoms — nausea, dizziness and sharp pain — while out partying, and only later detect a needle prick on their skin, a red dot surrounded by a blue circular bruise. Returning home from a night of dancing last month in Nantes, western France, 21-year-old Eloise Cornut had a sudden onset of “cold sweat, nausea, shivering and dizziness.â€...
Source: taipeitimes.com