Five legionnaires, four Russians and an Uzbek, are being prosecuted for their role in an international network of pimping and human trafficking. The trial opened this Monday before the Marseille criminal court.
The thirty-year-olds are accused of having set up a prostitution network in around forty medium-sized towns. across France, by exploiting several dozen young women from Ukraine and Russia. The investigation began in November 2020 with the arrest at Saint-Nazaire station (Loire-Atlantique) of a young Ukrainian woman.