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Eight Arrested in UK Probe Into Men Drugging and Raping Partners
The National Crime Agency said the probe identified over 270 linked people and led to 14 investigations across the UK and abroad.
- On Thursday, the UK's National Crime Agency arrested eight people as part of a probe into an international network of men suspected of drugging and sexually abusing women they know.
- A 2025 probe by German journalists into an online forum exposed a truly international network with members spanning every continent, prompting the NCA investigation.
- The NCA identified over 270 individuals linked to the forum and its offshoots, while Europol's 'Project Medusa' probe separately identified 156 victims and perpetrators of drug-facilitated sexual assaults.
- Helen Millichap, director of the National Centre for Violence Against Women and Girls and Public Protection, described the abuse as a "serious and evolving threat, rooted in domestic abuse." The "dimensions are changing," she added.
- NCA deputy director Nigel Leary said drug-facilitated sexual assault is "increasingly organised" and often "under-detected and under-reported" due to victim sedation, echoing concerns from the high-profile case of Frenchwoman Gisele Pelicot.
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The British authorities have arrested eight people as part of an investigation into an international network of men who sexually drugged and abused women around them in a case reminiscent of the French woman Gisèle Pelicot , who was raped by her then husband and by unknown persons after supplying her with narcotics for nearly a decade. Since the trial and conviction of her already ex-husband in 2025, similar cases have come to light throughout E…
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