The platform to help victims who believe they have been drugged then assaulted was created two months amid the trauma of a mass trial that shook France and the rest of the world.
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00:00Have you contacted us in case of a suspicion of chemical submission?
00:05Yes? Are you available? Can we talk together?
00:08It's one of the numerous ripple effects following the Mazan mass rape trial that shocked the world.
00:14Since the verdict last week, calls have been multiplying at the center located in a Paris hospital
00:20where specialists help victims who, just like Giselle Pellicot, have been drugged and then assaulted.
00:26In the context you describe, there are signs that can alert you.
00:30You have to be extremely vigilant.
00:38We have no right to touch you.
00:40That's how it is.
00:42There is no violation permit or assault permit. It doesn't exist.
00:46Victims then can have their hair analyzed for traces of drugs.
01:03Another striking consequence of the Pellicot trial,
01:07an unprecedented wave of calls from professionals to doctors to judges to NGOs.
01:15In the context of the Mazan rape trial,
01:18there is the over-mobilization of health professionals
01:21who are shocked by the fact that this victim was in a state of error for such a long time
01:27with symptoms she described, which she complained about,
01:30but which had not been identified as potentially being an administration of harmful substances.
01:35The intellectual honesty of the professionals was to recognize that they themselves would have missed it
01:41and that if there is nothing more worrisome for a professional,
01:45it is a phobic reaction they had to miss a similar case.
01:49And so that's why we are particularly asked for training to improve their skills.
01:56The French government promised it would launch reforms to help people
02:00who fear they've been drugged and then raped, including state-funded test kits.