The court followed the requisitions of the public prosecutor.
For some defendants, it even went further.
He imposed very heavy prison sentences on the fifteen defendants of the Bulgarian prostitution network tried by the court of Bobigny.
The clan leaders who forced young Bulgarian women to knock on the gates of Paris were sentenced to 10 years in prison with security sentences and fines of several hundred thousand euros, permanent inadmissibility and deprivation of civic rights.
These men from the Bulgarian Roma community were being prosecuted for aggravated pimping and human trafficking.
Prostitutes were considered slaves.
After recruiting them in deprived regions of Bulgaria, they seduced them and dangled them for a job as a cleaning lady in France.
Once there, they were beaten and donated almost all of their earnings to their torturers.
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"We stop them during the passes": in the horror of the Bulgarian prostitution network
None of the victims had lodged a complaint
They lived a real hell, chaining the passes for ridiculous sums.
Some were even timed during their performances.
They could be sold to other pimps as a simple commodity for a thousand euros.
None of these victims have lodged a complaint and they will not receive one euro of the heavy fines imposed by the court.
On one end of the sidewalk, along the roads, they were subjected to the street bosses, prostitutes mounted in rank.
They were just as cruel as the bosses.
In this network there was also the mother of a pimp.
Nikolinka, 60, collected the money from prostitution and she reportedly sought to reinvest it in Bulgaria in real estate.
An estimate evaluated the earnings generated by a girl at € 9,000 per month but the survey did not allow to say more about the assets accumulated by the pimps and their families.
Nikolinka, who appeared free, was sentenced to 5 years in prison, including one year suspended sentence with a committal warrant and a € 500,000 fine.
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A heavier sentence than the requisitions of the prosecution which had demanded three years of detention and a 100,000 € fine.
Me Honegger, his lawyer, decided to appeal, as did Me Beaufils, who defended one of the main clan chiefs sentenced to ten years in prison and fined 300,000.