She felt uncomfortable telling Nègre that she wanted return to the office to use the toilet, so told him she was cold as an excuse to go back to the building. But she says he walked away, guiding them towards the banks of the River Seine, so she told him she needed to find a toilet urgently.

"He looked me right in the eye and said, ‘Oh, do you need a wee?’

“I felt like a child. 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.

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      She says Nègre told her that he knew of a public toilet nearby, but when they arrived at the location there was no toilet.

      “I was really starting to suffer… pains to the point that I was white, pale, I had tears streaming down,” she says.

      Marie-Hélène says she had no choice but to urinate in public. She says Nègre offered to shield her with his jacket.

      “I was terribly embarrassed,” she says. “He didn’t take his eyes off me.”

      Marie-Hélène says that for years she felt ashamed.

      Like Anaïs, she was also contacted by police who told her she was among Nègre’s alleged victims. “It was a very big shock,” she adds.

      Like with most rapists, it’s all about power and control and humiliation.

      People outside of the US love to sneer and look down on us for electing a rapist pedophile. It’s the entire fucking world that is run by rapists like these.

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        It is now 15 years since Anaïs’s encounter with Nègre and seven years since she first spoke to police.

        Like many of the other accusers, she is frustrated at the length of time it is taking for Nègre’s case to come to court.

        Meanwhile, the alleged perpetrator has continued to work in human resources, according to Fondation des Femmes, a women’s rights group that is supporting about 30 of the women affected.

        He still works in HR as well.

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        Capitalism is designed to favor the cluster b people. Narcissists, psychopaths and the like. The easiest way to the top is to backstab your way up. It’s only natural that they end up concentrated at the top.

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        Yeah, individual offenders aren’t the problem it’s the systems of power that let them offend like this that are the problem.

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          The systems of power are the societal problem but the individual offenders are guilty as hell and very much also the problem

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          Yep. And yet there’s a persistent belief that feminism has gone too far in favor of women’s rights. It hasn’t nearly gone far enough.

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        Yeah, no.

        Police abuse INCIDENTS happen all over the world, yes, but the US police forces are the only ones (in Democratic countries anyways) where abuse isnjist standard operating procedure.

        Other countries too may have incidents with rape and abuse and abuse of minors, but again, the US seems to have made all that a past time hobby of sorts. I recall a sub reddit specifically for posts about Republican government employees at all levels being child rapists. There were daily posts.

        The world can’t really hold a candle to the USA in that matter

        Also not in school shootings, come to think of it

        Or just shootings in general

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          I’m not talking about school shootings or police forces.

          There are many rapists in positions of power around the world. Rape is about power. And people who seek positions of power often abuse those positions.

          We live in a world dictated by patriarchy. This is a symptom.

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          but even this guy is just a civil servant

          He’s a civil servant. Enough said.

          Also going to completely ignore that Prince Andrew exists and still hasn’t seen the inside of a jail cell for rape?

          and the French have always been kinda rape-y

          Oh yeah, no big deal. The French are always rapists, what the fuck? THIS IS A BIG DEAL ACROSS THE BOARD. Period.

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              He’s still in an HR role. He’s been preying on women for decades. This doesn’t happen unless the culture is permissive of it.

              There may be some fucked up inbred royalty in Europe, and the French have always been kinda rape-y, but even this guy is just a civil servant and not an elected politician. There is no European or Asian Epstein level scandal that I have ever heard of. Have you? Strong accusations require strong evidence. Until that it’s just conspiracy theory.

              The entirety of this paragraph is dismissive. You clearly haven’t lived in the world as a woman to be perfectly honest.

              Civil servants literally work for the government. To say that this guy was allowed to operate like this for decades but it’s not a reflection of the government or the country is wild.

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      I know that there’s a fetish for this without necessarily the drugging aspect. Unfortunately wherever there’s a kink there’s someone who likes forcing people into it

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      I think it was the plot of a long-buried Pepe Le Pew episode?