“Wild bites” in the evening: applications to alert, protect yourself and transmit exploitable evidence

Each summer, the same scenes come back. A “feeling of bite” in full crowd, an unexplained discomfort, an arm marked without reason … This year again, the music festival has seen the reports, from Paris to Limoges to Toulouse. But behind these stories, concrete evidence is rare. The analyzes often arrive too late, the substances disappear quickly, and the attackers remain untraceable.

The shock seems very real. But without formalized procedure, without specific reflex, the case remains a dead letter. The question is not here to know if the bites are proven, but how to report them immediately and effectively, so that a doubt can become exploitable proof.

What are the reporting applications available in 2025?

In France, several applications can today be used to report a dangerous situation or constitute a beginning of evidence in the event of “suspicious sting”. Among the main ones:

• App,
• The Sorority,
• Umay,
• My hood,
• SAFER,
• My SOS Family,
• Memo of life.

App Allows you to trigger a discreet alert with three pre -recorded contacts, while recording the sound environment and location in real time. The application also keeps the elements, which can be useful in the event of a complaint.

App
App for the App Store

The Sorority Based on a mutual aid network between women. In the event of danger, an alert is transmitted to the nearby members, which can react, help, or simply reassure remotely. The network is based on solidarity, but requires an active community in the areas concerned.

The Sorority
The Sorority on the App Store

Umay is focused on prevention of violence in public space. It offers a real -time trip follow -up, an alert button, and a cartography of places identified as “safe” (bars, shops, partner establishments).

Umay
Umay on the App Store

My Riding Hood Works as a virtual support solution: the user can indicate his journey, be followed remotely by a loved one, or even be put in contact with a voluntary “copieton” present in the surroundings.

My Riding Hood
My Riding Hood on the App Store

My SOS Family is distinguished by its compatibility with vocal assistants and connected objects (watches, smartphones), and allows you to launch an alert for your loved ones via SMS, calls or emails. It originally targets the elderly, but also adapts to festive contexts.
My SOS Family
My SOS Family on the App Store

Saferless known to the general public, is deployed at certain festivals. It allows participants to contact the security team directly via a dedicated channel, and to report a situation in a confidential manner.

SAFER (web only, no public application on blinds)

Finally, Memo of lifedeveloped by the National Federation Solidarity Women with the support of the government, makes it possible to securely store documents, medical certificates, photos or accounts of events. It is a tool for pre -consumption of file, useful upstream of a complaint.

Memo of life (accessible online, without mobile application)

Despite their respective qualities, none of these applications is today linked to an emergency medical protocol, a hospital base or an automated legal circuit. Clearly: they protect, they document, but they do not activate an institutional response. And that is the whole problem. A report, as precise as it may be, often remains without follow-up if he does not find takers in the early hours.

In the hospital, everything is based on the victim

In the event of a suspicious bite, it is recommended to go to emergencies without delay, without changing or urinating, in order to maximize the chances of toxicological detection. A medical protocol can then be activated: it provides photographs of the injection site, biological analyzes and useful medical documentation in the case of a judicial result.

But this protocol, in fact, often depends on the capacity of the victim – or his relatives – to initiate him. In the tumult of a festive event, this reflex is rarely immediate. It is however one of the only ways to constitute an exploitable medico-legal basis. A digital tool could support each stage of this channel: alert, guide, record. This type of gateway does not yet exist today.

Festivals that react alone, for lack of national framework

Certain events have taken the lead, such as the La Paille Festival, which has set up Safe Zones with trained staff, or the fan zones of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, with secure reception points supported by the Paris City Hall.

In festivals like We Love Green, the SAFER application is integrated into the system: participants can, via QR code or smartphone, anonymously alert the security team.

But these initiatives remain punctual. Each has its own organization, without national coordination, official protocol or uniform monitoring platform. In the absence of a common framework, everything is based on the commitment of local organizers and their means, rather than a structured and standardized response.

A public, centralized, interoperable solution?

France already has the technological bricks necessary for a unified reporting system. Between France Identity,, My health space And the public APIs available, several experts believe that a centralized platform would be technically possible. An alert triggered via app, SAFER or other could, in theory, generate a unique identifier, transmit encrypted data to a medical center and initiate a follow -up procedure … If the idea is not technical on the technical level, it remains absent from current political priorities. In the absence of such a device, it is still up to the victim to ensure the activation of each link in the chain alone.

The only immediate protection is anticipation: to install a confidence application, to know the right gestures, to go to the emergency room, to eliminate anything, to take a photo and file complaints, evidence in hand.