He had been trapped on the internet by a Montois couple, who had created a fake Facebook profile and pretended to be a young teenager. A 48-year-old man suspected of pedophile crime appeared this Friday at the Mont-de-Marsan police station. "He was placed in police custody," said Olivier Janson, the Mont-de-Marsan public prosecutor, who himself learned of the case after it was posted on social media.
The couple exposed their trap on a video titled "We trap a pedophile" and posted on their Facebook account. At the end of January, he had created a fake Facebook profile: "a young girl of twelve, ignorant, fan of Matt Pokora, in fifth grade". This is how the target would have been trapped.
400 friend requests for the fake profile
In just 48 hours, he said he received more than 400 requests from friends after creating the fake profile, requests mainly from North Africa, South America, the United States and France.
"After going around certain profiles, he commented in his video, we accepted some individuals and very quickly, they went on the attack. During discussions with some people, an unhealthy atmosphere was created feel."
Meeting filmed with a hidden camera
The alleged pedophile, trapped in the video, quickly contacted the false girl via Facebook. "We were shocked to come across someone around us," explained the accomplice's accomplice on the video.
Thinking of addressing a young schoolgirl, the man had made salacious remarks, sent a photo of him naked, and finally invited her to a meeting at Jean-Rameau Park in Mont-de-Marsan, advising her to stay discreet.
The meeting, filmed with a hidden camera, finally took place on February 11 and the video was broadcast the following day on the web. It accumulated Friday evening nearly 25,000 views. The suspect of sexual offers to minors under the age of fifteen faces two years of imprisonment, and five years in prison in the event of a physical encounter.
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