A Tunisian posing as a '
spiritual healer
' was arrested on Tuesday after a television report aired in which he admitted to having tricked hundreds of women into having sex with him, we learned from judicial sources.
The man, whose remarks broadcast on Monday evening were recorded by a journalist from the private channel Al Hiwar Ettounsi - who posed as a potential client - persuaded his victims that this sexual intercourse was the remedy for the problems they were complaining about. .
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According to Fatma Boukattaya, the spokeswoman for the Ariana court in the suburbs of Tunis, the man, arrested on Tuesday, was already under investigation before the broadcast of the report for his suspicious activities on social networks.
Presenting himself on his Facebook page as "
Bolga Kahouli
", this "
spiritual healer
", attracted his victims, all women, via social networks.
Exorcising “black magic”
In the report broadcast Monday evening, the man who claims to have powers to exorcise "
black magic
", tells the journalist that his methods have "
guaranteed results
" and that he has thus "
cured
" between 800 and 900 women by "
sexual sessions
".
"
Tonight you're going to sleep with me and you'll be 100% cured
," he told the journalist during a meeting filmed by a hidden camera.
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He sets a certain number of “
sessions
” for each client to “
cure
” her from the ailments that haunt her.
To the journalist who describes false troubles to him, he advises 14 “
sex sessions
” at a total price of 210 dinars (65 euros).
One of his victims, a 25-year-old student, said on the show that she had been sexually abused for three years by this "
healer
".