Suspicion of needle pricking/spiking in 2022 in Paris, France, an observational study from the Department of Forensic Medicine.

Background: Needle pricking, the act of being intentionally pricked by an assailant, and needle spiking, the covert injection of substances using a needle, have historical precedents and recently resurfaced in Europe in 2022. This resurgence presented a challenge for emergency and forensic medicine departments.

Methods: We conducted a retrospective study in the forensic medicine department of Paris, France, including all patients who consulted for suspected needle pricking/spiking in 2022, following a police report.

Intimate Partner Sexual Violence: An Exploratory Study on Sexual Victimization Profiles Among Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence in France.

Intimate partner sexual violence (IPSV) is a common form of intimate partner violence (IPV). This study aimed to (a) identify a typology of intimate partner sexual victimization among French women victims of IPV on the basis of the frequency of various forms of sexual violence and (b) evaluate whether these profiles differ in several clinical characteristics. A total of 93 women consulting a specialized hospital service were recruited.

Pro-active drug-facilitated crimes (DFC): a study in the Department of Forensic Medicine of Paris, France.

Introduction: Proactive drug facilitated crime (DFC) is the administration of psychoactive substances (PAS) for criminal purposes without the victim's knowledge or by force. In Paris, France, patients who report suspected proactive DFC to the police are examined at the Department of Forensic Medicine (DFM) of the Hôtel-Dieu Hospital. Preventively blood and urine samples are collected but not systematically analyzed by the judicial authority.

Assessment of 19 years of a prospective national survey on drug-facilitated crimes in France.

Drug facilitated-crime or chemical submission (DFC/CS) is defined as the concealed or forced administration of psychoactive substances to a victim for criminal purposes. This is a national program set up in the early 2000 s in the form of a prospective multicenter survey, the results of which this manuscript presents. Over this 19-year period, 5487 cases were collected, analyzed and classified into 54 % of suspected cases, 29 % of chemical vulnerability (CV) cases and 17 % of proven DFC/CS cases.

Male Victims of Rape: An Observational Study over Four Years in Paris, France.

Sexual violence is a common and under-reported form of violence that affects all categories of individuals. We sought to provide epidemiological data on men aged 15 years and over, victims of rape or suspecting a rape, and who reported it to the police. We conducted a retrospective study at the Department of Forensic Medicine of Hôtel-Dieu, Paris, France, between 2018 and 2021.

Aortic dissection in a body packer: Did cocaine play a part?

Body packing is defined as the ingestion of drug packets, to conceal them during transportation. We report the case of a 63-year-old cocaine body packer, who died from an aortic dissection. He was arrested in Paris as he disembarked from a flight from Cayenne (French Guinea) and custom officers found cocaine in his suitcase.

Body packing, body stuffing and body pushing: Characteristics and pitfalls on low-dose CT.

Because of availability and low radiation dose level, low dose computed tomography (CT) is now commonly used to identify illicit in corpore drug transportation. This review illustrates the most common CT findings of in corpore drug transportation and describes complications due to in corpore drug transportation, with a special emphasis on low dose CT. Major information such as number of packets, exact location and aspect of packets must be assessed.

Emerging issues related to the management of patients in custody during the COVID-19 outbreak in France.

Purpose: This paper aims to give an overview of emerging issues relating to the management of patients in custody during the COVID-19 outbreak in France.

Design/methodology/approach: During custody in France, a medical consultation is provided for any patient who requests it. In the Paris area, this consultation is carried out by a practitioner in forensic medicine, based in a general hospital.

Management of the COVID-19 epidemic in a French immigration detention center.

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to give an overview of management of the COVID-19 epidemic in a French immigration detention center.

Design/methodology/approach: During containment in France because of COVID-19, the judicial authorities had to deal with the risk of contamination within immigration detention centers (IDC). In the Paris IDC, which can usually receive up to 240 individuals, measures have been taken to limit the risk of contamination by releasing individuals without prior judicial conviction and testing the others by a nasal swab.

[Medical certificates, determination of the total work incapacity, and elementary traumatic injuries].

Medical certificates, determination of the total work incapacity, and elementary traumatic injuries. The drafting of medical certificates is an essential act in the practice of every doctor. Its importance on the medico- legal level obliges us to write these certificates in an applied and rigorous way.

The attack on November 13, 2015: organisation of the medico-judicial unit of the Hôtel-Dieu Hospital in Paris.

The main aims of a medico-judicial unit are to ensure the examination of assault victims or persons in custody and to perform sampling necessary for investigations. Forensic examination is essential to describe the wounds and to evaluate the consequences of an assault by determining days of total incapacity for work (ITT). After the Paris attack on November 13, 2015, 121 victims were examined at the medico-judicial units of Paris.

[Population of people placed in police custody, hidden barometer of diverted medicines].

Purpose Of The Study: The population of people in police custody is a sentinel niche that is poorly represented in the "usual panels" of public health studies. The aim is to make an overview of their diversion of drugs.

Patients And Methods: A retrospective study based on cases of misuse in a sample of people in custody examined between 2015 and 2016 at the forensic medicine unit of the hospital Hôtel-Dieu-Paris.