She denounces a
worrying
"
trivialization
" of pimping and prostitution among young people.
After the appearance of two men for having contributed to a pimping network at the Lille court on February 12, the Lille public prosecutor, Carole Étienne, said he wanted to "
push a cry of alarm
" on the LilleActu site in About the prostitution of minors.
For her files alone, the magistrate identified 33 victims of procuring in 2020, 22 of whom were minors.
More broadly, the Central Office for the Suppression of Trafficking in Human Beings confirmed in
Figaro
an explosion in the number of minor victims of 600% between 2014 and 2020, going from 28 to 198 people concerned in France.
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In remarks reported on Tuesday, February 16, the magistrate evokes these cases, a majority of which concerns "
vulnerable people, in difficulty, aged between 14 and 17 years old, running away
" from their home, and who find there the opportunity to finance their daily life without asking more questions.
A policeman from the Lille metropolis details the classic gear in which young girls fall: "
We are going to have boys, who go out with younger girls, broke up, who consider them as their friends but who do not hesitate to “Sell” first to friends, then more widely, mainly via the internet
”.
Sometimes the pimps themselves are minors.
Carole Étienne likewise evokes the functioning of this internet-based prostitution: "
In all cases, we now find sites dedicated to advertisements, hotel rooms or apartments rented expressly, sometimes on online platforms
", details- she does.
Victims may initially be consenting, and then see the trap close.
The magistrate, who says to push "
a cry of alarm
", regrets finally that the young girls victims are not always on the side of justice, in particular "
not to lose their" freedom "or by" love "
".
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A first media alert in 2018
In 2018, the Attorney General of the Paris Court of Appeal, Catherine Champrenault, was already alerting to the upsurge in “city
pimping
”, affecting young women, sometimes minors, in a forum near the
Parisian
.
The increase in this prostitution "
proceeds both from greed for money and from an extreme trivialization of the sexual act exacerbated by the explosion of pornography
", she explained.
In a case judged in April 2018, the Créteil court had sentenced to terms ranging from two to six years' imprisonment for men who drugged and prostituted young girls.
The details of the investigation had revealed particularly shocking aspects, the victims chaining up to 300 passes per month and bringing in nearly 50,000 euros to their pimps, reported AFP.
The magistrate evoked, concerned, the "
descent into hell
" of the victims.
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