The sentence imposed, part of which has already been served in custody, is flexible, the court said, adding that the perpetrators will be registered in the dossier of sexual or violent offenders (Fijais).
The sentence is less than the requisitions of the prosecutor, who had requested six years of imprisonment with a mandate, recalling the “scourge” of child prostitution, whose body is reduced to a “simple instrument of trade”.
Despite the denials of the accused, the trial made it possible to outline the functioning of a network in a context of social misery.
The action takes place on the fifth floor of a building in Aulnay-sous-Bois (Seine-Saint-Denis), in the north-east of Paris, in a studio transformed into a squat by its occupants.
Within this den, teenage girls prostitute themselves, including the victim at the center of this case, under the yoke of their alleged executioners. At the age of 14 at the time, she fell into this network through a path of wandering and violence.
He explained to the investigators that he had followed, at first without constraints, a friend of a house in Toulouse, nicknamed “Sarah”, who had asked her if she wanted to “make money”.
But real sexual exploitation quickly sets in.
Owner of six phones, “Sarah” beats up the “raclis” (“girls,” in slang) and manages customer appointments – ten a day for the victim – via the unscrupulous Wannonce site.
“1 hour is 150 euros”, underlines the president of the court.
The victim derives no benefit from his activities: he must immediately hand over the money to his Thenardiers. You will be able to warn the police by contacting a friend through social media.
At the age of 23, “Sarah” denied any competition in prostitution, citing memory lapses about the facts. Two young people gravitate around this jailer on an equally chaotic journey.
At the top is the headmaster, a burly dude from Sarcelles, a hazy rapper by the name of “DM Thug”. When the victim asks not to work due to vaginal pain, he refuses and buys her some lubricant. When she tries to escape, he beats her.
After two years of pre-trial detention, this suspect was released under judicial supervision. Then it evaporated. On the run, he is targeted by a European arrest warrant.
At his side, “Jo” follows him like his shadow. At 26, this 1.95m by 95kg mirror cabinet did not justify his multiple visits to the studio. “I have nothing to do with this,” she replied.
The court also accuses him, as a “DM”, of aggravated violence against the victim, who was slapped and shot with an electric gun when he tried to rebel.
“I was getting dirty, it was my first time, it was slavery”, wrote the victim to his lawyer in an email read at the hearing, where he describes his “nightmares”, his psychological following to be reconstructed. Still too frail, she couldn’t go to the hearing.
