It's a deflagration in the opaque medium of X. After being interested in the criminal practices of certain confidential directors, such as Pascal OP, craftsman of the French Bukkake site, justice is now targeting one of the empires in the sector, the powerful site pornographic "Jacquie and Michel".
A company made in France which has experienced a dazzling rise over the past twenty years by staging amateur actresses in film shoots wanting to be as close as possible to the French.
"Porn à la bon franquette", headlined Le Monde in 2015, referring to the 10 million euros in annual turnover.
After four days of police custody in the premises of the 1st district of the Parisian judicial police, the boss of "Jacquie et Michel", Michel Piron, 64, was brought this Friday morning before an investigating judge with a view to an indictment.
He risks prosecution for "complicity in aggravated rape, human trafficking and pimping".
Investigators suspect him of having organized controversial filming during which young women were forced to engage in violent and painful non-consensual sexual practices.
At least seven actresses said they were victims of such acts.
For one of the alleged rapes, the courts have retained, at this stage, the aggravating circumstance of acts of torture and barbarism due to the violence suffered.
In a press release, Michel Piron's lawyer, Me Nicolas Cellupica, indicated that his client maintained that he was only a "broadcaster" of X films with no knowledge of the conditions of the shootings.
"He always said on the side of the victims if actresses suffered acts of sexual violence that he was completely unaware of," added the Parisian criminal.
An investigation opened in July 2020
“Jacquie” does not exist.
On the other hand, the wife of Michel Piron, Araceli A., 60, was also placed in police custody and is presented to justice.
The couple had been arrested on Tuesday in the town of Odos (Hautes-Pyrénées) by the police of the 1st DPJ.
Three actors and directors who worked for the pornographic site are also brought before an investigating judge.
They are Jacques V., alias "Jack Wood", 75 years old, arrested in Paris, Sébastien P., alias "Dorian", 49 years old and Thomas, alias "Antonio", 33 years old, both arrested in the Gard .
The Paris prosecutor's office had opened this investigation in July 2020, initiated after a report sent by Dare feminism, the Effronté-es and the movement of the Nest.
These associations relayed the testimonies of several actresses claiming to have been forced into ““non-standard and painful” sexual practices” when they did not consent.
At the same time, another judicial investigation is open in Paris in which 12 people have been indicted, including the producers "Pascal OP" and "Mat Hadix" as well as several X actors. The investigations revealed the existence of a system generalized sexual violence in the middle of X, where young precarious women are recruited by trickery and are forced to engage in violent sexual practices, sometimes under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
In this file, as in that of Jacquie and Michel, directors and actors are sometimes common to the shoots and the actresses exchanged like merchandise, thus revealing an ecosystem operating in a vacuum.
