A judicial investigation has been opened and five people indicted for pimping in an organized gang, after the denunciation by a 15-year-old girl in Compiègne (Oise) of acts of kidnapping and forced prostitution, announced the prosecution of Senlis.
Three men aged 20, 23 and 25 and a woman aged 21, arrested on Saturday, and a fourth individual aged 23 arrested on Monday, have all been indicted for “pimping aggravated by the minority of the victim and committed in an organized gang“, Indicates the prosecution of Senlis in a press release. The teenager had managed to contact the police on Saturday through a friend, allowing the arrest “on the spot“of the first four implicated, recalls the prosecution. She then hadindicated to the investigators that she was placed with the departmental direction of solidarity of the Marne, that she had run away then had been approached by several individuals, in particular by these four people arrested, so that she prostituted herself under their control“, he specifies. These four suspects, like the last individual arrested on Monday, all “challenged their involvement in the facts under consideration“, Continues the prosecution. They have been placed in pre-trial detention, but one of them, who has asked for time to prepare his defense before the judge of freedoms, will have his situation examined in a few days.
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Originally from around Reims, the teenagerplaced in a home by a children’s judge in Châlons-en-Champagne for about two years” would have “run away since May“Said Sunday the prosecutor of Compiègne, Marie Céline Lawrysz, before the case was taken over by the criminal center of Senlis. “She says that she prostituted herself first in Paris, then would have liked to escape her Parisian pimps, and would have been taken in charge by a man who would have taken her to Amiens, where she would also have prostituted herself, before d arriving in Compiègne“added Marie Céline Lawrysz. The Compiègne police station and the Creil judicial police were jointly seized of this investigation.
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Originally from around Reims, the teenagerplaced in a home by a children’s judge in Châlons-en-Champagne for about two years” would have “run away since May“, she continued. “She says that she prostituted herself first in Paris, then would have liked to escape her Parisian pimps, and would have been taken in charge by a man who would have taken her to Amiens, where she would also have prostituted herself, before d arriving in Compiègne“added Marie Céline Lawrysz. In Compiègne, she would have prostituted herself voluntarily at the start, before the situation escalated. The Compiègne police station and the Creil judicial police were jointly seized of this investigation.