(BBC) – “I was really weak. I couldn’t really feel my legs any more,” says Anaïs de Vos. “I was scared. I didn’t know what was happening.”
It was July 2011 and Anaïs, who was then 27, was being interviewed for a job at France’s Ministry of Culture in Paris.
She didn’t usually drink coffee but when the interviewer, a senior civil servant called Christian Nègre, offered her one, she agreed out of politeness.
He made it himself, she tells BBC Global Women, but “it tasted bad… so I drank about half”.
The meeting had started in the office, but after a few minutes Nègre suggested they go outside.
As they strolled through Paris’s streets, Anaïs began to feel an inexplicable and uncontrollable need to urinate.
