Investigators have uncovered a vast network of prostitution within the Chinese community operating throughout the national territory from Paris. They were able to identify some fifty female victims, aged 20 to 50 years.
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A national pimping network, which exploited about fifty Chinese women from Paris and spread throughout France, was dismantled on November 30, franceinfo learned Tuesday, December 7 from the Central Office for the Suppression of Trafficking in Human Rights. human beings (OCRTEH). Seven people were placed in pre-trial detention and three under judicial supervision, Franceinfo also learned from a judicial source.
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The dismantling of this network results from a two-year long investigation, carried out by OCRTEH since December 2019. Over time, the investigators update a vast network within the Chinese community operating throughout the national territory since Paris. The investigators were able to identify about fifty female victims, aged 20 to 50 years.
The pimps were in charge of making sexual appointments with these women, paying them for the train and for apartments in various cities in France. The women then returned to Paris with the sum of money, which was divided in two between the pimps and the women.
Ten people, suspected of being at the head of this network, were arrested on November 30. Presented to justice last week in Paris, they were first indicted for “aggravated procuring”, “trafficking in human beings in an organized gang”, “provision of private premises for prostitution activities” and “money laundering worsen”. Seven people were remanded in custody, three others under judicial supervision.