With a campaign that was implemented on the initiative of women’s city councilor Eva Schobesberger and in collaboration with the “Fiftstitual%” association, the women’s office of the city of Linz draws attention to the topics of co-drops and sexual violence. On the occasion of this, the CEO of the association “Ko – No Victim E. V.”, Nina Fuchs, was a guest in Linz and called “real solidarity with those affected”. The OÖN spoke to the activist and even those affected.
OÖN: Ms. Fuchs, what is the dangerous of KO-drops?
Nina Fuchs: CO drops are an extreme example for non-given consensus. The most dangerous is that you can get souvenir gaps from it and that the detectability of the substances is very short. If you want to file a complaint, it is totally difficult that this project will lead to success – that you can actually prove the substances and to grasp the perpetrators. It is usually too late to realize the whole thing. That is why rapid action is important.
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Co-drops and sexualized violence are topics that are still considered taboo topics. What measures do it need to obtain changes in society?
Nina Fuchs: I would find it important that the topic is taken seriously at all levels. For example, by collecting statistics from the police or by the topic in the curricula of the schools and in the sense of a holistic and sustainable perpetrator prevention, one begins to clarify, for example, about consensus. I would like real solidarity with those affected and above all that the “Victim-Blaming” ends. That it can be stopped to push the responsibility to those affected, for example by accusing them of enjoying alcohol or choosing their clothes. Signs such as “Pay on your glass” or other rules of conduct are nice, but they steer the focus from the perpetrators to those affected. Special bracelets that are supposed to protect against ko drops by testing drinks for frequently used substances such as GHB or GBL are unreliable – they convey a wrong feeling of security and push responsibility again to women.
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What would you advise those affected?
Nina Fuchs: I would advise you to go to an advice center and get support. If there is a violation of violence to see it and preferably promptly, because the detectability in the substances is very short. Under no circumstances should you stay alone with heavy trauma.
“Would be nicer if you wouldn’t have to deal with these topics”
Nina Fuchs has the association “Ko – No Victim E. V.” in Germany Founded, which, in addition to KO-drops, also deals with the topics of consensus culture and sexualized violence. “Unfortunately. It would be nicer if you wouldn’t have to deal with these topics,” says Fuchs. The emergence of the non -profit association is heavily linked to its own past. “The night to April 18, 2013 changed my life. I was raped under the influence of ko drops,” said the activist. Five years later, in May 2018, the alleged perpetrator was found from his sperm in the database based on the DNA traces. Nevertheless, the public prosecutor’s office in Munich hired the procedure.
Neither the submitted complaint of your lawyer nor an online petition with over 100,000 signatures and a lot of attention from the media could change that. “Through my path to the public, more and more affected people turned to me and shared their stories with me. I realized that what I had experienced is not a tragic individual fate, but almost all those affected are the same.”
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