A senior French civil servant, Christian Nègre, is accused of drugging nearly 250 women during job interviews between 2009 and 2018, subjecting them to chemical submission. This was reported by Qazaqyia.kz citing BBC News.
Anaïs de Vos attended a job interview at France's Ministry of Culture in Paris in July 2011. She did not usually drink coffee, but when the interviewer, Christian Nègre, offered her one, she agreed out of politeness. "He made it himself, but it tasted bad... so I drank about half," she says.
The meeting started in the office, but after a few minutes Nègre suggested they go outside. As they strolled through Paris's streets, Anaïs began to feel an inexplicable and uncontrollable need to urinate. When she told him she needed to find a toilet urgently, he looked her in the eye and said, "Oh, do you need a wee?" and directed her to a storage cupboard under a bridge on the River Seine, saying, "You can do it here."
Feeling it was "too strange," Anaïs insisted they move on. They walked to the Louvre to use the toilets, but they cost one euro and she had left her purse at the ministry's offices. Nègre said he had no cash either. Desperate, Anaïs found a cafe that let her use their toilet. By then, she felt really weak, and as she approached the bathroom, she lost control and wet herself.
Thinking back to 2011, Anaïs gets some comfort from the fact that when she did urinate, it was out of Nègre's sight. "At least he didn't see me," she says. After three hours with Nègre, she felt dizzy and drained. She didn't get the job, and the incident damaged her self-confidence, leading her to a less ambitious career path.
In 2019, Anaïs received a letter from the police. They suspected she was one of almost 200 women Nègre was accused of drugging during job interviews. "I was shocked," she says. "But I was happy to know I wasn't crazy. Something had happened that day."
Police believed Nègre had used diuretics, which cause the body to produce excess urine. The concept of chemical submission gained prominence in France in 2024 when Gisele Pelicot's husband was found guilty of sedating her and inviting strangers to rape her while she was unconscious.