Six people, including the chairman and CEO of a major insurance group, were indicted and placed in pre-trial detention on Saturday May 21, we learned on Monday from concordant sources, confirming information from RTL.
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With varying degrees of involvement, they are prosecuted for "trafficking and attempted trafficking in human beings against minors", "rape of a minor over 15 years old", "use of prostitution of a minor" and “sexual assault on a minor under the age of 15”.
They are also suspected of "criminal association to commit the crime of kidnapping and sequestration in an organized gang" and "possession of child pornography images".
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According to a source close to the Figaro
investigation
, the businessman implicated is Jacques Bouthier, the number of Assu 2000. From a source close to the file cited by
RTL
, a 22-year-old young woman came to Paris police in March, explaining that for five years she had been "captive" of a wealthy man who raped her.
Becoming, according to him, “too old for him”, the latter would have been forced to find a “substitute” to take over.
A 14-year-old girl then took her place in the apartment.
The complainant managed to film them together in a bed, before entrusting the video to the investigators.
The CEO, 75 years old and ranked among the top 500 fortunes in France, is suspected of having subsequently wanted to set up a team to kidnap the young woman, seize the video, and force her to leave the country.
For this, the septuagenarian would have asked his wife, two employees of his company, a young woman close to the complainant, as well as a former gendarme member of the GIGN.
All were indicted and imprisoned on Saturday, a judicial source told
Le Figaro
.
The investigation was entrusted to the Brigade for the Protection of Minors (BPM) of the Parisian PJ.
A judicial inquiry has also been opened.
It is now up to an investigating judge to carry out further investigations.
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