The pandemic has in no way stopped the sordid scourge of underage prostitution.
In the Saint-Étienne region, four people, three women and a 46-year-old man under guardianship, were thus imprisoned last March for having sexually exploited two minors aged 13 and 14 in their apartment, for several months.
Supported after having run away from their foster home, the teenagers multiplied the "passes", at the rate of ten to twenty clients per day.
In Lille, a month earlier, it was the prosecutor Carole Étienne who said she wanted
to raise
a "
cry of alarm
" in the face of the risk of "
trivialization
" of the phenomenon: for her files alone, the magistrate identified 33 victims of procuring in 2020 , of whom 22 were minors.
In Paris and its inner city, the lights also turn red, to the point that the Paris judicial police (PJ) decided to change gear with the creation, since last September, of a specialized group within the Brigade of
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