According to
Le Parisien
, a pimping network was dismantled in June in Villepinte (Seine-Saint-Denis), which employed prostitutes, one of whom is only 13 years old.
The work of the family protection brigade made it possible to arrest three young men aged 17 to 20, who were indicted for aggravated pimping on June 24 in Bobigny.
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Educational services had been concerned since December 2020 about the fate of a 16-year-old teenager, who prostituted herself under a pseudonym on an online advertising site. Questioned by investigators, she retraced her journey, indicating that her entry into prostitution was made via a second-grade student at her high school, who offered it to her. The teenager wanted to pay for her birthday party, which her mother gave her was not enough in her eyes, as sources close to the investigation detail.
Having contacted a young man on the Snapchat social network, the girl is taken to an apartment in Villepinte, where she meets two other girls, aged 13 and 17.
She registers on the dating site and starts selling her body, receiving four clients daily, and paying 350 euros to her young pimp.
Forced into prostitution for three more weeks
It is when she decides to stop this trafficking that the boy is insistent, slaps her and forces her to continue her activities for three weeks. The police, informed, landed on June 22 in the apartment, and discovered condoms and sex toys. The prostitutes interviewed confirm the first testimony. The mackerel usually arrived in the morning and stayed there to watch the customers' passes. According to investigators, he received 1000 euros per day. As for the youngest prostitute, aged 13, she denies prostituting herself, but messages on her phone clearly indicate the realization of a sexual service for 30 euros.
The pimp and an accomplice are then placed in police custody, and deny en bloc. The third respondent, a young man of 20, a garbage collector by profession and suffering from a disability due to epilepsies, is the title tenant of the apartment. According to his lawyer, he did not have the capacity to undertake these illicit activities. He himself says he is ignorant of the past: “
I know today that I was not allowed to rent my accommodation. I am sorry. I was not expecting this story of pimping,
”he would have explained.