French deputy Sandrine Josso, who was drugged with ecstasy last week by Senator Joël Guerriau, said this Monday that she wants to give visibility to the 'scourge' of chemical submission that women suffer.

The senator was arrested and accused by a judge of two crimes, supplying a drug with the aim of committing rape or sexual assault and possession of narcotics.

In an interview with the public television channel France 5, Josso explained that he came to Guerriau's home to celebrate his re-election as senator, since they are both from the same department of Loire-Atlantique and have known each other for ten years.

He added that the senator served him a glass of champagne, which he noticed a strange taste and that his host encouraged him to continue drinking.

After a few minutes he began to have palpitations and the senator increased and decreased the intensity of the lights, something that the doctors later told him increases the effect of ecstasy.

He later claimed that he saw Guerriau put a small white bag inside a kitchen drawer.

He decided to leave and asked for a taxi.. The senator accompanied her and she explained that she couldn't stand up in the elevator.. “I thought I was going to die first of a heart attack” and then “because he was going to abuse me.”

“Doctors see people like me every day”

After initially going to the National Assembly and receiving initial medical attention, she was sent to a hospital. “The doctors told me they see people like me every day, three a day. “Anyone can suffer what I have gone through,” he stressed.

For this reason, Josso assures that he wants to use his case to give visibility to this phenomenon, which he described as a “scourge” due to its incidence.

Guerriau's lawyer, Rémi Pierre Drai, claimed several times in the last week that his client never intended to drug her guest and “old friend,” but rather made “a manipulation error.”

After Josso's complaint, agents of the Judicial Police went to the senator's home, where they found ecstasy.. In addition, an analysis found traces of several drugs in his system.

After his indictment, Guerriau was released under the prohibition of contacting Josso.. His party (Horizons) and his parliamentary group (Senate Independents) suspended him last Saturday.