The French public prosecutor’s workplace has arrange a particular unit to research doable connections between the nation’s residents and US intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein. The public prosecutor’s workplace stated on Saturday that the staff ought to consider the Epstein paperwork and uncover doable crimes dedicated by French folks. These could possibly be potential “crimes of various kinds, including those of a sexual or financial nature.”
At the identical time, the general public prosecutor’s workplace introduced that it could reopen the case of former mannequin agent Jean-Luc Brunel, who was accused of rape by a number of prime fashions earlier than his demise. The Frenchman was a enterprise companion of Epstein.
Brunel was discovered useless in a jail cell in 2022 – simply as Epstein was present in a New York jail in 2019. The French public prosecutor’s workplace investigated, amongst different issues, suspicions that Brunel might have “organized the transport and accommodation of young girls or young women for Jeffrey Epstein.”
Since the publication of three million paperwork from the Epstein information in January, an increasing number of politicians and celebrities who’re quoted within the paperwork have come underneath strain in France. A point out within the information doesn’t imply involvement in Epstein’s affairs.
The US investor Epstein, who’s networked within the highest circles of politics and enterprise, is claimed to have abused greater than a thousand minors and younger girls and in some circumstances handed them on to celebrities. He was first convicted in 2008 of inciting a minor to have interaction in prostitution. In 2019 he was arrested once more on suspicion of sexual abuse of minors. In August 2019, he was discovered hanging in his New York jail cell.
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