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French civil servant drugged us to make us urinate on ourselves, say accusers (www.bbc.com)

submitted 5 days ago by pelespirit@sh.itjust.works to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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She felt uncomfortable telling Nègre that she wanted return to the office to use the toilet, so told him she was cold as an excuse to go back to the building. But she says he walked away, guiding them towards the banks of the River Seine, so she told him she needed to find a toilet urgently.

"He looked me right in the eye and said, 'Oh, do you need a wee?'

"I felt like a child. I thought it was really weird the way he looked at me, almost gleeful."

She says he directed her to the door of a storage cupboard under a bridge on the Seine and said: "You can do it here."

Now, Anaïs is one of nearly 250 women who believe Nègre drugged them in alleged incidents between 2009 and 2018, subjecting them to what is known as chemical submission, where drugs are used to gain control over someone.

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[–] Photonic@lemmy.world -3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

just a handful of government officials.

Indeed it is. And that is entirely my point. Whereas it’s your top level officials all you’ve got is a few elected lower politicians and a non-elected royal inbred like I already mentioned.

A handful people are nowhere near proof of a conspiracy of:

hundreds to thousands of people involved in the coverup

… or that sexual predators have somehow worked their way to the top levels of the government in the entire world.

Give yourself and the rest of the world a break America: you elected this guy and his gang of cronies. They are by far the worst government in the western world by every other metric available. Until you provide evidence to the contrary, let’s just assume they are also the worst by this one.

Conspiracy theories about “the rest of the world is just as bad” are just helping to diminish how horrible they are, just like the “it’s both sides” tactic that MAGA uses to normalize their behaviour.

Not only that, but creating conspiracy theories about sexual assault and diminishes the inhumanity that these crimes are and diminishes the horrors that actual victims have gone through.