"I was nauseous reading this file."
Deputy prosecutor Amandine Boyer did not have enough harsh words to qualify the case in her hands on Tuesday.
The Reims court imposed up to four years in prison on two women and five men tried for organized gang pimping in 2018 in Reims, Lormont (Gironde) and Pontault-Combault (Seine-et-Marne).
This network exploited about twenty prostitutes, young vulnerable and destitute women who came mainly from Haiti and the Dominican Republic via Martinique.
A 35-year-old woman at the head of the network
"Conductor" at the center of this canvas according to the prosecution, Rosméry DS, a 35-year-old woman from the Dominican Republic, was sentenced to four years in prison and one year suspended, the heaviest sentence.
"The prostitutes worked for her and not with her," said Amandine Boyer.
"You prostituted yourself and managed the prostitution of others", had earlier summarized the president of the court Pierre Creton.
Organized via classified ads on the Internet in apartments loaned or sublet by his accomplices in Reims, Lormont and Pontault-Combault, the passes were billed at 80 euros per half hour and 150 euros per hour.
"It was going on," said the deputy prosecutor, referring to the hundred correspondents with whom Rosméry DS was in regular telephone contact.
An "insolent criminality"
Part of the illicit earnings, or several thousand euros according to the estimates of investigators, was sent to the Dominican Republic to buy, according to Rosméry DS, shares in a cafe owned by his father in Santo Domingo.
For the prosecution, the other defendants were not content to lend or sublet these apartments.
They also participated, to varying degrees, in the logistics of the network: recruiting and transporting prostitutes between different towns, purchasing food and drink, lending bank cards, publishing classified ads on the Internet, etc.
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“Everyone tries to minimize their role and responsibilities.
But it is an insolent crime, “asserted the deputy prosecutor.
One of the men involved, a tenant of the Pontault-Combault apartment, was finally sentenced to two years in prison and one year suspended, the other defendants receiving suspended prison sentences.