Syringe Attacks at French Music Festival Injure 145, Women and Teen Girls Main Victims
The syringe attacks were part of the overall chaos and mayhem that was associated with the nationwide festival.
This weekend, nearly 150 attendees at a nationwide music festival in France were subjected to mysterious syringe attacks. The attacks took place across France and those targeted were mainly women, and included 14 teen girls.
Authorities reported that a dozen suspects have been arrested in relation to the troubling incident.
Local and national law enforcement are investigating the wave of deranged incidents in which suspects wielding syringes with unknown contents jabbed 145 victims at the popular Fêtes de la Musique, or World Music Day, celebrations across the country, causing several to be hospitalized.
The first attack was reported to police at 9:15 p.m. on the Rue du Palais in Metz in northeastern France, according to Mayor François Grosdidie.
Authorities received a report of a suspect involved in one of the attacks and used security footage to track him down, Grosdidie said.
Some reports suggested possible motives ranging from pranks to more sinister intentions, though no clear motive or substance was confirmed at the time. Victims were taken for toxicology testing, to determine if drug were involved.
According to the interior ministry, it remains unclear whether the cases of “needle spiking” – in which attackers use syringes to inject victims typically in the arm, leg or buttocks – involved date-rape drugs such as Rohypnol or GHB, which can leave individuals disoriented, unconscious and vulnerable to assault.
“The ministry is taking this very seriously,” a spokeswoman from the interior ministry told CNN on Monday. “Toxicology tests are being done and the investigation is ongoing.”
One aspect of the investigation is exploring whether these incidents were inspired by troubling posts circulating online encouraging men to “target women with syringes” during the holiday.
The growing fear surrounding so-called “needle spiking” has been a point of concern in Europe over the past few years. However, the rarity of confirmed toxicology findings has left health professionals and law enforcement divided over the true extent of the issue. Regardless, the fear it generates—and the disruption it causes—is real and escalating.
Festival organizers and police are facing mounting pressure to increase safety measures at future events, including more thorough bag checks, medical tents, and real-time monitoring of social media for threats.
As France processes the events of this year’s Fête de la Musique, one message is clear: public spaces once considered safe for celebration must now reckon with a new kind of threat—one that is silent, deliberate, and deeply unsettling.
The syringe attacks were part of the overall chaos and mayhem that was associated with the nationwide festival.
🇫🇷 Chaos at France’s Music Festival 2025 (Fête de la Musique). What was meant to be a night of celebration turned into total mayhem.
🚨 371 arrests
🩸 6 stabbed, 14 seriously injured
💉 145 reported syringe attacks
🧯 1,500+ minor injuries
🔥 51 vehicles torchedStreets of… pic.twitter.com/TZRbciDf2u
— Mayin (@MayinPuri) June 23, 2025
Apart from those suspects, more than 370 people were detained during the festival on various charges, including nearly 90 people in Paris. Fourteen participants in the festivities were seriously injured, including a 17-year-old who was hospitalized after being found sitting on the street with stab wounds to the lower abdomen. Thirteen members of law enforcement were also injured.
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France has become even weirder (if that’s possible).
A music festival with women not wearing hajibs walking around in public unescorted by their male relatives.
I’m not saying it’s Muslims, but…..
https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:2048/format:webp/1*PWBqAI67BlXTVfZg7CaArQ.gif
I’m sure it was just nutritious bat soup.
taken6
Liam Neeson has learned his lesson. No matter how heroic you are in rescuing your estranged family, your ex won’t have anything to do with you.
thats how you keep the sequels coming
We need common sense syringe control!!
Why? I don’t see the point…
‘groan’
And now these 145 victims will have to go in for medical monitoring for the rest of their lives as some blood-born diseases (AIDS comes to mind) can take months or even years before they manifest any disease. And that’s just for blood-born disease. Lord only knows what might have been in those syringes to begin with.
They did arrest over 300 people, what were in the syringes they carried?
What was their nationality, religious leanings?
allah juice
They arrested 14 people not 300. Arrests would outnumber victims 2:1 at that ridiculous number.
I’m not even sure where you found 300. They might have originally held that many for questioning initially (and may have included victims) but they def did not arrest that many.
The post says there were 371 arrests. But not for syringe attacks.
Even the dozen or so arrested for syringe attacks might not have had their syringes on them when they were caught. And chances are good that they were each operating independently, and thus even if the police discover what one of them was injecting people with that would give no information on what the others used.
I think the most likely answer is that the syringes were empty, or contained only water. The purpose would have been simply to alarm people. And the motive would have been pure mischief.
The French are known for being chauvinistic: proud of their language, culture, art, cooking and especially wine. Yet they have allowed hordes of North Africans to invade and terrorize their country. They have allowed the invaders to set up parallel societies with their own laws. What gives? Why does the French public allow this attack on their country? One would think that “Marine” Le Pen’s National Rally Party would dominate French politics with Le Pen as President. Are the French just stupid? Suicidal? Are the elections rigged? Obviously there is a lot I don’t understand about France. Ok the UK and Germany are as bad or even worse, but these countries never had the extreme cultural chauvinism exhibited by the French. I suppose it started with Algeria, which was once part of France, giving North Africans an original foothold.
As a side comment: don’t try these kind of attacks in Texas. Many Texans walk around armed and they know how to use their weapons. My area is full of gun stores and gun ranges. Anyone who attacks me or my family (including my pets) had better be prepared for an aggressive defense.
Pity the French, especially the young girls. Frenchmen: fight back with no mercy.
” They have allowed the invaders to set up parallel societies with their own laws. ”
You mean, like Dearborn?
Dearbornistan, Somoliland in MN etc. Yup.
Their Surrender Mentality is more powerful than their chauvinistic pride.
It was very strange how Macron came to power. Out of the blue. Nobody had really heard of him before, then he invents a new political party (France had old established parties) and not only was he elected president, his brand new party swept to power in the legislature.
It wasn’t great or anything, just new. WTF happened? A color revolution? They have manual local vote counting so it’s probably not that, but it’s as if a national hysteria overtook France for that election. I guess they’re prone to that, look at the French Revolution and the chain of shitshow events that set off.
A song could be made of it, like Une Jeune Fillette, a medieval classic, about the travails of a young girl of pure heart forced into becoming a nun.
A French music classic.
Eustache du Caurroy wrote a famous instrumental on it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE4nUokJ6RI
The perps could have their right hands amputated, leaving them the option of learning French music’s Ravel Concerto of the Left Hand.
for the left hand
No mention of the nationality of the ones arrested tells me all I need to know. Charges dropped, attackers set free, victims investigated.
There is no reason to suppose their nationality was anything but “French”. That would not normally be reported, because it would be assumed.
Contaminated with what biological stuff?
Sounds like a good reason for some justifiable homicide to me.
So basically, a bunch of pricks in France?
Do we know what was in the needles yet?
We all want to know: were these suspects all unruly Norwegians? They bring chaos wherever they go.