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Osheaga is preparing to announce new measures regarding the safety of female festival-goers, as well as a broader all-around security strategy, the Montreal Gazette has learned.

Female fan safety has been a hot topic since Osheaga attendee Melanie Doucet told media that she was drugged during the Red Hot Chili Peppers’s performance at last year’s festival.

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Doucet was able to recognize the symptoms of the date rape drug and get herself to safety; but after the fact, she expressed disappointment with how other festival-goers and security had responded to her situation.

People around her thought she was inebriated and pushed her away, she said, while a festival employee Doucet spoke to on-site the next day told her that perhaps she should have watched her drink more closely.

Last month, when the Montreal International Jazz Festival announced an initiative in which all-female patrols of armband-identified “Hirondelles” would be roaming its site, ensuring that women and members of the LGBTQ community are safe, the pressure quietly shifted to Osheaga to follow with measures of its own. Those measures will be announced next week, Osheaga co-founder Nick Farkas told the Montreal Gazette on Friday morning.