Europe 1 with AFP 5:25 p.m., October 01, 2022
In Paris, four men were indicted for, among other things, gang rape and human trafficking in an organized gang as part of an investigation into the "French Bukkake" pornographic platform.
Three of them are amateur actors.
Four men were indicted on Friday in Paris for trafficking in human beings in an organized gang and gang rape in the investigation in Paris on the pornographic video platform "French Bukkake", we learned from a judicial source.
Two of them were placed in pre-trial detention and the other two under judicial supervision, said this source.
The four men, at least three of whom are actors in so-called amateur porn, were arrested on Tuesday as part of a judicial investigation opened in October 2020 for aggravated human trafficking, gang rape or even aggravated pimping.
These indictments bring to sixteen the number of men - actors, directors, producers - prosecuted in this case.
The vast majority of them are incarcerated.
Among them, the producers nicknamed "Pascal OP" and "Mat Hadix", very well known in this so-called amateur porn scene.
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Verbal non-consent of young women in videos
More than forty victims have joined as civil parties, as well as associations.
According to elements of the investigation revealed by the press and confirmed by AFP, the platform of "Pascal OP" identified under the name of "French Bukkake", the name of a sexual practice, first attracted l attention of investigators: a subscription allowed customers to participate in priority to these collective ejaculations, with places reserved for sessions without condoms.
This system, aimed at making individuals pay in exchange for organized sexual relations, has fueled suspicions of pimping in the eyes of the courts.
To find "actresses" for filming, a modus operandi was identified by the investigators: a tout, posing as an "ally" woman, "Axelle", convinced these women canvassed on the internet, often with life paths difficult and deprived, to prostitute themselves.
This tout then turned into a client and obtained from them a sexual service aimed at removing their reluctance to paid sex.
After having left them without pay, "Axelle" contacted them again to suggest a new way to bail them out, via high-paying porn videos intended for Canada.
But the film ended up being accessible everywhere, including in France.
Subject to lengthy analyzes by the gendarmes of the Paris research section, the videos produced "really questioned the consent of young women to the various sexual performances", since in certain passages they verbally opposed sexual practices which were imposed.
An industry with many excesses
The French porn industry has been in the spotlight for two years: another survey carried out in Paris since July 2020 targets "Jacquie et Michel", the embodiment in France of amateur porn and tricolor pillar of this industry.
In June, four men, including the founder of the site, Michel Piron, were indicted in an open judicial investigation, in particular for aggravated pimping, trafficking in human beings in an organized gang, rape with torture and acts of barbarism.
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The political world has seized on the subject: in a report made public on Tuesday, the delegation for women's rights in the Senate considered that the fight against "systemic violence against women" generated by the pornography industry should become a "priority of public and penal policy".