New Delhi, June 24 -- As many as 145 people reported being pricked with syringes during an annual street music festival in France, officials said Sunday.

According to CBS news, authorities had reporting "unprecedented crowds" in Paris on Saturday as millions of people thronged the streets across France for the Fete de la Musique in the evening.

Before the party, posts on social media had called for women to be targeted during the festivities, the report added.

A feminist influencer, Abrege Soeur, had warned online before the festival that calls had been made on social media for women to be targeted with syringes, the Guardian reported. It was not certain where such posts would have been made or by whom.

France's interior ministry said...