Berlin club guests criticize ProSieben for “needle spiking” experiment
Berlin club guests have made allegations against the TV station Pro Sieben for an experiment on the subject of “needle spiking”. reported about it “Mirror online” [Bezahlinhalt].
Accordingly, a 27-year-old “suddenly felt a stab on her right upper arm” while dancing in a club in Berlin-Friedrichshain. They knew beforehand that there was filming going on at the club that night, but didn’t connect the “stab” to it. “I was terrified of losing control,” she says on “Spiegel Online”. The phenomenon of needle spiking was discussed intensively in June after a club visitor in Berlin reported that she had been the victim of an injection attack with knockout drops.
The 27-year-old also had to think about it immediately. About an hour and a half later, another friend reported a similar sting. The group decided to leave. According to the 27-year-old, she was only asked about the situation at the exit of the camera team.
ProSieben contradicts the representation of the club guests. “The club visitors were not pricked. They were marked with a highlighter. It’s absolutely harmless,” said sender Christoph Körfer.
Körfer emphasized: “Immediately after the TV team realized that a lady was unsettled after touching the highlighter, the reporter enlightened her. In this conversation, the lady was immediately informed that it was not a needle but a highlighter and what the experiment was about.”
The woman quoted by “Spiegel Online” made completely different statements about the timing. She criticized that the sender had deliberately frightened and unsettled women. ProSieben emphasizes that the footage shot clearly shows the chronological course of events.
According to ProSieben, the contribution is a production for the show “Zervakis & Opdenhövel”.