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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    This doesn’t happen unless the culture is permissive of it.

    More general statements that don’t mean anything, still not even weak evidence for your strong accusation.

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

    Aaaand more logical fallacies. You clearly haven’t got any evidence for whatever claim you’re making, to be perfectly honest.

    Civil servants literally work for the government.

    Still not a politician. Still not elected. You elected the Epstein class into power. That hasn’t happened in the rest of the world. Period (to quote you).

    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.

    No. Tripling down on a statement and attacking someone who disagrees with you over some conspiracy theory that you can’t back up for the life of you is what’s wild.

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      That hasn’t happened in the rest of the world.

      The Epstein class doesn’t exist only in the US.

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        Where is the European Epstein scandal then? The Asian? The Australian?

        You elected a fascist sex offender into your most important office. Don’t drag the rest of the world into this just because having elected him —twice even— makes you feel bad. Or tell me, who is the European or Asian Trump?

        Yes, sexual assault happens everywhere, but no, there is no evidence that the rest of the world is ruled by sex offenders as well.

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          The Asian Trump is in a prison cell in The Hague. Hopefully they manage to convict him before USA Trump finishes his rugpull of the ICC.

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            If you’re talking about Duterte, he is a sick fuck, but the charges of the ICC are murder and attempted murder.

            There are no charges of sexual assault, trafficking or any of the other things Trump or the current US administration has proven to be guilty of.

            This discussion isn’t about evil governments in general, but specifically sex crimes against women.

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              Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has confessed to sexually abusing a maid while he was a teenager, according to a report.

              In a speech on December 29, Duterte said that he had confessed to a priest going into a maid’s room while she slept and placing his fingers on her genitals, the BBC reported.

              The remarks were not unusual for Duterte, who has frequently come under fire for making statements that demean or encourage violence against women. Last June and July, women’s rights activists gathered in Manila to protest Duterte’s treatment of women, including his remarks that communist rebels should be “shot in the vagina.”

              You’re wrong again.

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                Maybe I’m kinda wrong about this one, although I correctly stated that it was not part of his indictment.

                But you say:

                wrong again

                How was I wrong before? Please refrain from conspiracy theories and actuality prove something for a change.

                This quadrupling down without a shred of evidence is becoming awkward.

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          -Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor

          -Sarah Ferguson

          -Ehud Barak

          -Miroslav Lajcak

          Just to name a few that were in the Epstein files and are not from the US. And that’s just a handful of government officials.

          They were all protected as well. There were hundreds to thousands of people involved in the coverup and are still working to protect these powerful people.

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            just a handful of government officials.

            Indeed it is. And that is entirely my point. Whereas it’s your top level officials all you’ve got is a few elected officials and a non-elected royal inbred like I already mentioned.

            A handful people are nowhere near proof of a conspiracy of:

            hundreds to thousands of people involved in the coverup

            … or that sexual predators have somehow worked their way to the top levels of the government in the entire world.

            Give yourself and the rest of the world a break America: you elected this guy and his gang of cronies. They are by far the worst government in the western world by every other metric available. Until you provide evidence to the contrary, let’s just assume they are also the worst by this one.

            Conspiracy theories about “the rest of the world is just as bad” are just helping to diminish how horrible they are, just like the “it’s both sides” tactic that MAGA uses to normalize their behaviour.

            Not only that, but creating conspiracy theories about sexual assault and diminishes the inhumanity that these crimes are and diminishes the horrors that actual victims have gone through.

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          no evidence that the rest of the world is ruled by sex offenders as well.

          You are delusional if you think there are no other world leaders that have sexually assaulted or raped others.

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            You are delusional

            Sure… you’re peddling conspiracy theories and I’m the delusional one…

            But no, I don’t think there are no other world leaders that have sexually assaulted or raped others. Nor have I claimed that. Another straw man.

            But again, there is no proof that it’s a worldwide problem anywhere nearly as much as in the USA.