The gendarmes of Val-d'Oise dismantled an important prostitution network, born in Persan-Beaumont in 2018, and which had developed in the whole of France. The suspects sometimes employed around 20 prostitutes at the same time, mostly vulnerable young women, often from the cities.
After nine months of investigation by gendarmes from Val-d'Oise and the Central Office for the Suppression of Trafficking in Human Beings (OCRTEH), also seized, four pimps and their henchmen, who ensured the logistics and pass security were arrested on February 4. Following police custody, 7 people from the network were placed under investigation and placed in pre-trial detention.
The girls also worked in Tours, Bordeaux…
The investigation began in April 2019 with simple information collected by the Persian gendarmes, according to which pimps operated in Beaumont. The first testimony of a girl, a few weeks later, confirmed the existence of a prostitution network which turned out to be much larger than expected.
Investigators from the L'Isle-Adam research brigade discovered that it went far beyond the Val-d'Oise and that it had spread throughout the Paris region but also in several large provincial towns, Tours, Bordeaux, or Strasbourg. The profit amounted to a hundred thousand euros.
Four identified pimps
The investigators identified four pimps, in their thirties, who previously operated in other traffics and were able to surround themselves. They hired goons, logisticians to supply prostitutes, low-end hotel or Airbnb rentals, Internet advertisements. Others were responsible for security.
