When a concert turns into a nightmare. Friday evening, in Le Touquet, two teenage girls and a boy, aged 14, 15 and 16 respectively, were probably pricked with a needle or syringe by an individual.
The latter explains The voice of the Northtook advantage of the compact crowd of the electronic music festival, Touquet Music Beachto commit his crime before fleeing.
One of the victims lodged a complaint at the Le Touquet police station and the Boulogne prosecutor’s office opened an investigation.
But, in the immediate future, young people live in fear of having been contaminated by the AIDS virus or hepatitis B. The risk is real but low. A investigation conducted in the United States in hospitals showed that this risk was 0.4% per accident.
While awaiting the results of the blood tests, a preventive treatment has been prescribed to adolescents to limit these risks as much as possible. They will also have to be screened for these blood-borne diseases.
For their part, the police arrested an individual. Questioned, he was released without being placed in police custody according to the prosecution, “the elements were not sufficient in the state to call him into question”, specifies the regional daily. The judicial investigation is continuing.
