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Ilikuwa yapata saa 7:30 usiku, baada ya umati kupungua mitaani mjini Bordeaux, ndipo Manon alipohisi kudungwa na sindano kwenye mkono wake.
“Mtu alinipiga kidogo kwenye mkono wangu wa kushoto. Nikaanza kuhisi ganzi kwenye misuli, kama vile unavyohisi baada ya kupata chanjo. Baada ya takriban dakika 30, alama ya sindano ikaonekana,” alisimulia kwa CNN.
Licha ya kutokujua alidungwa nini – wala nani alimdunga – Manon alisema hakutaka kuingiwa na hofu.
Manon, mwenye umri wa miaka 22, alikuwa miongoni mwa karibu watu 150 nchini Ufaransa walioripoti kudungwa sindano wakati wa tamasha la kitaifa la muziki mitaani lililofanyika mwishoni mwa wiki. Kwa mujibu wa wizara ya mambo ya ndani, bado haijafahamika kama dawa za kubaka kama vile Rohypnol au GHB zilitumika katika mashambulizi hayo ya "kudungwa sindano", ambayo yalitokea maeneo mbalimbali ya nchi na inaonekana yalihusisha watu zaidi ya mmoja.
Kabla ya tamasha hilo – lililovuta mamilioni ya watu mitaani – mshawishi wa kike kwenye mitandao ya kijamii alitoa onyo kuwa kulikuwa na wito ulioenea mtandaoni ukihamasisha wanawake kushambuliwa kwa sindano.
Baada ya kutumia muda wa saa 10 alfajiri hadi saa 1 asubuhi siku ya Jumapili katika chumba cha dharura hospitalini, Manon alishiriki video ya uzoefu wake kwenye TikTok.
“Ilikuwa muhimu kwangu kuelimisha watu, kwa sababu sikuwa nimeona ushuhuda wowote kutoka kwa watu waliodungwa sindano,” alisema Manon, ambaye alikataa kutaja jina lake la mwisho kwa sababu za usalama.
Source: CNN
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It was around 1.30 a.m., after the crowds had thinned from the streets of Bordeaux, when Manon felt the prick of a hypodermic needle going into her arm.
“Someone tapped my left forearm. I started to feel numb in the muscle, like you do when you get a vaccine. After about 30 minutes, the injection mark appeared,” she recalled to CNN
Despite not knowing what she had been injected with – or who had done it – she said she “didn’t want to panic.”
Manon, 22, was one of nearly 150 people in France who reported being pricked with syringes during a nationwide street music festival at the weekend. According to the interior ministry, it remains unclear if date-rape drugs such as Rohypnol or GHB were used in the “needle spiking” attacks, which took place across the country and appear to have involved multiple perpetrators.
Ahead of the festival, which drew crowds of millions of people to the streets, a feminist influencer had warned that calls had been made on social media for women to be targeted with syringes.
After spending 4 a.m. to 7.a.m on Sunday in the emergency room, Manon shared a video of her experience on TikTok.
“It was important for me to raise awareness, because I hadn’t seen any testimonies from people who had been injected,” said Manon, who declined to give her last name for safety reasons.
“We had been told on social media to be careful, but I think people want to know more – how it happens, the symptoms, how it unfolds. It reassured me to talk about it, because at the time, I was completely alone.”
After she got home from the hospital, Manon filed a police report. “It’s important because if we’re too lax, if we say, ‘oh, others will file complaints’, nothing ever changes. I told myself maybe it can have an impact.”
“Mtu alinipiga kidogo kwenye mkono wangu wa kushoto. Nikaanza kuhisi ganzi kwenye misuli, kama vile unavyohisi baada ya kupata chanjo. Baada ya takriban dakika 30, alama ya sindano ikaonekana,” alisimulia kwa CNN.
Licha ya kutokujua alidungwa nini – wala nani alimdunga – Manon alisema hakutaka kuingiwa na hofu.
Manon, mwenye umri wa miaka 22, alikuwa miongoni mwa karibu watu 150 nchini Ufaransa walioripoti kudungwa sindano wakati wa tamasha la kitaifa la muziki mitaani lililofanyika mwishoni mwa wiki. Kwa mujibu wa wizara ya mambo ya ndani, bado haijafahamika kama dawa za kubaka kama vile Rohypnol au GHB zilitumika katika mashambulizi hayo ya "kudungwa sindano", ambayo yalitokea maeneo mbalimbali ya nchi na inaonekana yalihusisha watu zaidi ya mmoja.
Kabla ya tamasha hilo – lililovuta mamilioni ya watu mitaani – mshawishi wa kike kwenye mitandao ya kijamii alitoa onyo kuwa kulikuwa na wito ulioenea mtandaoni ukihamasisha wanawake kushambuliwa kwa sindano.
Baada ya kutumia muda wa saa 10 alfajiri hadi saa 1 asubuhi siku ya Jumapili katika chumba cha dharura hospitalini, Manon alishiriki video ya uzoefu wake kwenye TikTok.
“Ilikuwa muhimu kwangu kuelimisha watu, kwa sababu sikuwa nimeona ushuhuda wowote kutoka kwa watu waliodungwa sindano,” alisema Manon, ambaye alikataa kutaja jina lake la mwisho kwa sababu za usalama.
Source: CNN
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It was around 1.30 a.m., after the crowds had thinned from the streets of Bordeaux, when Manon felt the prick of a hypodermic needle going into her arm.
“Someone tapped my left forearm. I started to feel numb in the muscle, like you do when you get a vaccine. After about 30 minutes, the injection mark appeared,” she recalled to CNN
Despite not knowing what she had been injected with – or who had done it – she said she “didn’t want to panic.”
Manon, 22, was one of nearly 150 people in France who reported being pricked with syringes during a nationwide street music festival at the weekend. According to the interior ministry, it remains unclear if date-rape drugs such as Rohypnol or GHB were used in the “needle spiking” attacks, which took place across the country and appear to have involved multiple perpetrators.
Ahead of the festival, which drew crowds of millions of people to the streets, a feminist influencer had warned that calls had been made on social media for women to be targeted with syringes.
After spending 4 a.m. to 7.a.m on Sunday in the emergency room, Manon shared a video of her experience on TikTok.
“It was important for me to raise awareness, because I hadn’t seen any testimonies from people who had been injected,” said Manon, who declined to give her last name for safety reasons.
“We had been told on social media to be careful, but I think people want to know more – how it happens, the symptoms, how it unfolds. It reassured me to talk about it, because at the time, I was completely alone.”
After she got home from the hospital, Manon filed a police report. “It’s important because if we’re too lax, if we say, ‘oh, others will file complaints’, nothing ever changes. I told myself maybe it can have an impact.”