The five people are notably suspected of having set up a reservation system to allow prostitutes to rent rooms in a dozen hotels in Dieppe, Rouen, Rennes, Orléans and Mâcon.
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Fourteen people in total were arrested, eight presented to a judge and five were imprisoned after the dismantling of a major pimping network, particularly in the west of France, franceinfo learned on Monday July 4 from a police source confirming information from Europe 1.
After 96 hours in police custody, the suspects were indicted for “aggravated pimping, concealed work, aggravated money laundering, fraud in an organized gang and abuse of corporate assets and assistance with the entry and stay of foreigners in France” . Three other people were placed under judicial supervision. In all, 373,000 euros in cash were seized as well as 2.4 million euros in bank accounts, Philippe Déjean told franceinfo, functional divisional commander and head of the GIR (Interministerial Research Group) at the territorial direction of the judicial police of Orleans, who carried out this investigation. In addition, five hotels, a restaurant and a house will be seized, for a real estate value of nearly 7 million euros.
In February, after an abnormal resurgence of advertisements for prostitutes on a specialized website, over several weeks and several months, the GIR began investigations by setting up telephone tapping and physical surveillance of two young associates in their thirties. years and owners of ten hotels in Dieppe, Rouen, Rennes, Orléans and Mâcon. They are suspected of having set up a hidden reservation system to allow prostitutes to rent rooms in these hotels and make their passes there. These women, Moldavians, Romanians but also women of French nationality rented these rooms at higher prices than other customers.
According to this police source, the two young entrepreneurs “had given instructions to all the receptionists to collect the sums in cash and then deposit them in a safe and once a month the two associates would come and collect the money”. In the hotels concerned, staff in an irregular situation, receptionists, cleaning ladies or cleaning men were employed according to this police source.