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Ile-de-France: the curtain falls for two massage parlors which would have sold sexual services

2021-02-26T19:40:24.415Z


Six people suspected of aggravated pimping and money laundering were arrested earlier this week. Their premises, located in


Guests of the Phoenix will have to go elsewhere.

The police from the Coulommiers police station conducted a raid on Tuesday in the massage parlor located at 8, rue Le Valentin, before placing seals on its storefront.

The managers of the company Le Soleil d'or are suspected of having transformed certain sessions into paid sexual services.

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Investigators from the Unit for the Fight Against Narcotics and the Underground Economy (Uses), created in March 2020, also arrested - on site or at their home - four men and two women, aged 32 to 55, immediately placed in police custody.

Several months of tracking and listening

The police had been investigating discreetly for several months: spinning, surveillance, telephone tapping, interviewing clients ... Few women pushed the door of this institute.

Really too little.

It seems that clients, coming from all over the Paris region, had been lured by a promising Internet advertisement, touting "Thai, Japanese and Chinese massages for initiates".

Translation: which end in a sexual act.

The naturist massage was priced at 80 euros per half hour and 120 euros per hour.

And the body-body massage, 100 euros per half hour and 150 euros per hour.

About ten customers visited the salon daily.

Coulommiers.

A dozen customers visited the salon daily, according to investigators.

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It was with the help of a Chinese language interpreter that the police interviewed the six defendants, residents of Créteil (Val-de-Marne), Aubervilliers and Bagnolet (Seine-Saint-Denis), but also from Coulommiers.

Four of them are effect of Chinese origin.

The family also ran a second massage parlor in Saint-Maurice (Val-de-Marne), which was also closed.

Tens of thousands of euros seized

During searches, investigators seized in the various homes the alleged proceeds of acts of prostitution: 25,000 euros in cash, two cars, three luxury watches, a luxury bag, a diamond, eleven phones, six computers and two tablets.

Not to mention the seizure of 75,000 euros deposited in bank accounts.

After four days in police custody, the six defendants were brought before the Meaux prosecutor's office, which intended to request the imprisonment of five of them.

The judge of freedoms and detention should rule this Friday, late in the evening.

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All will be judged in March for "procuring aggravated by the plurality of perpetrators and victims" and for "money laundering" by the criminal court of Meaux, as part of a delayed appearance.

As for the clients, they are not forgotten: they will have the right to an awareness training course on the fight against the purchase of sexual acts.

Source: leparis

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