Sylvie Delezenne hoped to land her dream job at the Ministry of Culture. But the interview ended with her – shaky, swollen and with a pounding heart – being forced to urinate on the side of the road, with the interviewer standing right next to her.
The official at the Paris Department of Justice is now accused of drugging more than 200 different women during job interviews over a period of nine years.
The procedure was repeated over and over. The man offered the women coffee – according to investigators laced with a powerful diuretic – and then insisted on continuing the interview during a walk. Some of the women were forced to urinate outdoors, others peed on themselves.
In 2018, a colleague reported the officer after he tried to photograph another colleague's legs. The police then found a spreadsheet titled "experiment," where he had kept records of the women and their reactions.
"Under the pretext of a sexual fantasy, this is about power and domination over women's bodies, through humiliation and control," lawyer Louise Beriot, who represents several of the women, told The Guardian .
The investigation began in 2019 and is still ongoing. The case has gained new attention in France with the abuse of Gisèle Pelicot, who was drugged by her husband and raped by around 70 different men over a period of ten years.
