Terrifying: 145 People Pricked With Syringes While Attending Music Festival | JP

This will make you think twice before attending a concert in France.

Police in France have reported that 145 people were pricked with syringes while attending a music festival.

Authorities are currently investigating whether the syringes were filled with date-rape drugs.

CBS News had the full scoop:

French police have detained 12 suspects after 145 people reported being pricked with syringes during the country’s annual street music festival, officials said Sunday.

Millions of people took to the streets across France on Saturday evening for the Fete de la Musique, with authorities reporting “unprecedented crowds” in Paris.
Before the party, posts on social media had called for women to be targeted during the festivities.

The interior ministry said 145 victims across the country had reported being stabbed with needles. Paris police reported 13 cases in the capital.

Officials did not say if these were cases of so-called needle spiking with date-rape drugs such as Rohypnol or GHB, used by attackers to render victims confused or unconscious and vulnerable to sexual assault. There was a spate of such attacks in the U.K. and a number of other European nations about three years ago.

BREAKING: Over 100 people were stabbed by syringes in coordinated attack at French Music Festival pic.twitter.com/vinooegQ4O

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This is what French music festivals look like nowadays:

Fête de la Musique or “music day” in France this weekend.

145 people has syringes stuck in them, scores stabbed, many seriously injured.

These were the scenes in Paris. pic.twitter.com/SBgfKNvlje

— Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 (@TRobinsonNewEra) June 22, 2025

Absolute chaos at Paris’ street music festival:

371 arrests
6 stabbed
1,500+ injured
13 police officers attacked
51 vehicles set on fire

And most shocking:

145 girls injected with syringes with an UNKNOWN substance

What the hell is happening in France? pic.twitter.com/T45d35lQ88

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One of the victims was a 15-year-old girl

Per The Guardian:

In Paris, investigations were opened after three people, including a 15-year-old girl and an 18-year-old male, reported being stabbed in separate incidents across Paris, prosecutors said. All three reported feeling unwell.
Across France, 12 suspects have been arrested, the interior ministry said. Among them were four people in the south-western city of Angoulême suspected of having targeted about 50 victims, a police source said.

Two men were also arrested in the centre of the north-eastern city of Metz on suspicion of syringe attacks. The regional public broadcaster France 3 reported that one man had been caught with a syringe and a woman who complained of being stabbed with one had recognised the other.

The local prosecutor’s office in Metz said the alleged victims were believed to be under 18. One of the alleged suspects, a man aged 20, was previously known to police for violence.

The local public radio station Ici France reported that several young women had complained of being stabbed with syringes in Évreux and Rouen in Normandy. One woman was taken to hospital with pains in her left arm where she believed a needle had been stuck into her. In the western city of Tours, 13 women complained to fire services on duty at a music event that someone had been pricked them with a syringe.