French civil servant drugged us to make us urinate on ourselves, say accusers

Key Facts

• Fact 1: I didn't know what was happening." It was July 2011 and Anaïs, who was then 27, was being interviewed for a job at France's Ministry of Culture in Paris.
• Fact 2: 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.
• Fact 3: The concept of chemical submission came to 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.
• Fact 4: Thinking back to 2011, Anaïs gets some comfort from the fact that when she did urinate, it was out of Nègre's sight.