The YouTuber couple was sentenced to 5 years in prison and 100,000 euros in fines. What will become of their children, Neo and Swan?
This is a new case that taints the Youtube sphere. After the rape accusations hanging over youtubeur Norman Thavaud, it’s Sophie Fantasy and Greg Inside’s turn to be in the crosshairs of justice. But unlike the first who is ultimately not the subject of any legal proceedings, the couple of youtubers, composed by Gaëlle Burlot and Grégory Thonet of their real names, have been sentenced. Accused of fraud, the couple was sentenced to 5 years in prison and a fine of 100,000 euros.
According to the information collected by our colleagues from Vanity Fair, “for nearly two decades, Gaëlle, Grégory and their former associates [d’une agence matrimonial, ndlr] would have promised lonely souls to find true love with women from Eastern Europe or Southeast Asia. However, they would often have contented themselves with collecting the contributions of the unfortunate credulous, to the point that the amount of the sums withdrawn would amount to 2 million euros. More than 340 men have been victims of this company, which has belonged to Grégory’s family since 1996.
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What fate for Neo and Swan?
The company, renamed Eurochallenges in 2010, is proud to have helped 10,000 men find love and boasts of benefiting from “partnerships with agencies in Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, but also in Vietnam or Cambodia. Branches are opening in the major cities of France, from Paris to Marseille. In 2014, first police custody for the family accused of organized fraud and abuse of weakness. The agency is put into compulsory liquidation the following year but it will be necessary to wait until 2022 before the first legal proceedings. According to information shared by Progress, “last December, Youtuber Sophie Fantasy, former manager Anne-Marie Muser [la mère de Grégory Thonet, ndlr] and his three sons, as well as nine other defendants had appeared in Lyon”.
Three months later, the verdict falls. Anne-Marie Muser is “sentenced to five years’ imprisonment, including three years suspended and a fine of 20,000 euros”, “his son, Roland Thonet, head of the agency’s legal and litigation department, was sentenced to four years’ imprisonment, including two years suspended and a fine of 10,000 euros. His other son Pierre-Alexis Thonet, co-founder of the agency, was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment, of which eighteen months were suspended.can we read in the columns of the Progress. Gaëlle Burlot and Gregory Thonet were sentenced to 5 years’ imprisonment, including 18 months suspended, as well as a fine of 100,000 euros.
Sophie Fantasy and Greg Inside are the parents of two boys, Neo, 18, and Swan, 11. Two teenagers who are also content creators on the platform with the red logo where they have 6 million subscribers. The eldest also shared a reaction to the condemnation of his parents during a video posted on Youtube. “The stories of our parents do not concern us, even if I support them 100%”explained Neo. The latter being an adult, the question of his care no longer arises after the verdict. On the other hand, as far as Swan is concerned, “the prosecutor should seize the children’s judge” in order to decide who will be responsible for the care of the minor who could be placed with a relative.
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