French MP says she feared a heart attack after drink was spiked with ecstasy

Sandrine Josso has accused senator Joël Guerriau of giving her a glass of champagne spiked with drug

A French member of parliament who was allegedly drugged by a senator has described “trembling and sweating” and fearing she was having a heart attack after drinking champagne spiked with ecstasy.

Sandrine Josso, 48, an MP for the centrist MoDem party, spoke out in two television interviews, saying she was “still in a state of shock” after the alleged incident last week.

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