'I didn't even know this type of attack existed': more than 200 women allege drugging by senior French civil servant

[AZJonnie]

5. What a bizarre story (and weird fetish this creep appears to have)

I wonder if the reason this hasn't gone to trial in so long is that there's just not quite a cut-and-dry law that applies to this case already on the books, because it's so odd nobody ever thought to legislate for it?

It seems like there would be laws against administering anyone any drug w/o their knowledge (outside of hospital emergency situations) he could be prosecuted for, at a minimum. It may qualify as an assault (it SHOULD, I just don't know it if would under French law), possibly even a sexual assault if prosecutors could prove this creep has a fetish around it, or the like.

Anyways, obviously one hopes justice prevails eventually, he definitely should pay for doing this, even if the outcome of causing someone to need to do something that they already do every day, multiple times a day may seem relatively mild, it's still a major violation of a women's bodily autonomy, and the descriptions of the actual situations the women were put in (in the article) sound potentially traumatizing.

One thing the story doesn't touch on was whether he also did the same to men who came in for interviews. Presumably not but this could be a key distinction between 'assault' and 'sexual assault' charges.