‘I didn’t even know this type of attack existed’: more than 200 women allege drugging by senior French civil servant

Sylvie Delezenne has said her priority is that ensuring that ‘this never happens to anyone else again’. Photograph: Ed Alcock/The Guardian

When Sylvie Delezenne, a marketing expert from Lille, was job-hunting in 2015, she was delighted to be contacted on LinkedIn by a human resources manager at the French culture ministry, inviting her to Paris for an interview.

“It was my dream to work at the culture ministry,” she said.