French civil servant drugged us to make us urinate on ourselves, say accusers

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More than 200 women accuse Christian Nègre of drugging them to make them urinate - two share their stories.

The laboratory routinely tests for 400 substances and "now, successful France, we are looking for diuretics", helium adds.

It is present 15 years since Anaïs's brushwood with Nègre and 7 years since she archetypal spoke to police.

Like galore of the different accusers, she is frustrated astatine the magnitude of clip it is taking for Nègre's lawsuit to travel to court.

Meanwhile, the alleged perpetrator has continued to enactment successful quality resources, according to Fondation des Femmes, a women's rights radical that is supporting astir 30 of the women affected.

"Everything is unsettling and I americium aggravated astatine however we are treated," says Anaïs, who is present 42 years old.

She says she archetypal spoke to constabulary successful 2019, but past heard thing astir the lawsuit until 2023, contempt emailing them galore times.

"For 4 years, I was unsocial with the cognition that I was a victim. I didn't cognize what to do," she says. "I americium precise aggravated with the justness system."

Marie-Hélène describes this waiting arsenic "secondary victimisation".

"As a victim, I person to beryllium the impact, spell to a psychiatrist, constitute circumstantial notes," she says.

The delays to the lawsuit person made what happened harder to bear.

"We bash not needfully consciousness [we are] wholly taken seriously," Marie-Hélène says.

Kalliopi Mingeirou from UN Women told the BBC that governments, constabulary and justness systems needed to bash much to tackle drug-facilitated intersexual assault, and that authorities were facing "very superior challenges" and delays successful cases of alleged maltreatment are "destroying women's lives".

The BBC asked the French police, judiciary and authorities to respond to the criticisms of their handling of the case, but they did not respond.

For a agelong time, Marie-Hélène was soundless until she stopped feeling shame.

"I don't person to fell myself - I americium a victim," she says.

"It is important for maine to talk publically due to the fact that it allowed immoderate victims to recognise themselves, to observe they were a unfortunate and to record a ailment successful turn.

"Speaking retired is indispensable successful the satellite successful which we live, it is important to speech astir sexist and intersexual violence."