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Seine-et-Marne: the fight against the prostitution of minors, priority of the year at the court of Meaux

2021-09-09T19:06:50.808Z


The president of the judicial tribunal of Meaux (Seine-et-Marne), Catherine Mathieu, and the prosecutor, Laureline Peyrefitte, want to fight co


A new “year” that begins, a new objective.

Catherine Mathieu, the president of the judicial tribunal of Meaux (Seine-et-Marne), and Laureline Peyrefitte, the prosecutor of Meaux, announce: the fight against the prostitution of minors will be THE priority of these two magistrates who arrived in the jurisdiction in 2020 and 2021.

“This litigation is growing and concerns us.

We have created a working group which has just submitted its report on the profile of perpetrators and victims ”, indicates Laureline Peyrefitte.

Before delivering worrying figures: since March 2020, no less than 25 cases have been handled by investigators, leading to the conviction of 61 pimps.

Not to mention two pending legal inquiries.

Read alsoHigher prostitution of minors: the report that worries

Latest example: last week, the Meaux Criminal Court sentenced a 20-year-old to three years in prison with a committal warrant and ban from French territory for eight years, for having delivered two 17-year-old girls to the prostitution in a hotel in Collegien, for two days.

The victims had been trapped via the Snapchat app.

"The victims do not always see themselves as such"

“The stakes are not only on the repressive level.

Victims do not always see themselves as such.

These are young girls who do not hesitate to speak about entrepreneurship, believing that it is an activity like any other and that they do what they want with their bodies, ”explains Catherine. Mathieu.

Before highlighting the “volatility” of these victims, sometimes from other departments and delivered to customers in apartments rented via a specialized platform.

Obviously, if the prosecutor gives "orientations" to her prosecution, the same is not true for the president, because of the independence of the judges of the bench.

"Which is not an obstacle to the exchange of points of view between the magistrates, who have met a sociologist", underlines the president.

700 investigations for domestic violence in June

For the moment, the modalities of this fight against prostitution have not yet been defined by the prosecutor and the president, who obviously do not lose sight of the priority of the past year, namely the fight against domestic violence.

Following requests from the Keeper of the Seals, an inventory was drawn up by an assistant lawyer, who came as reinforcement for the occasion.

A few edifying figures demonstrate the extent of this mass dispute: in June, 90 violent spouses were in pre-trial detention at Meaux-Chauconin prison, 375 others - already convicted - were followed in an open environment by the prison integration service and probation and 700 domestic violence investigations were underway.

A single judge hearing is now entirely dedicated to domestic violence, every week, at the Meaux Criminal Court.

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To fight against this national scourge, the Meaux prosecutor's office has developed, over the past year, multiple partnerships with the police and gendarmerie, victim support associations, doctors, local authorities and even services. integration and probation. Without forgetting the two agreements signed, one with the Order of Physicians - to encourage practitioners to report victims - and the other with a company that has designed an alert button, linked to the mobile application My sheriff. Today, 12 women have it, while 21 others benefit from a Great Danger Telephone. However, for the moment, only one anti-reconciliation bracelet has been attributed to a perpetrator of domestic violence.

Source: leparis

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