Sunday, the M6 ​​magazine "Zone interdite" focuses on the scourge of teenage prostitution, which has been booming in recent years.

According to Ophélie Meunier, the presenter of the program, invited Friday from Europe 1, these young girls are most often trapped on the internet and social networks. 

INTERVIEW

It is on an alarming and growing phenomenon that the

Interdict

Zone 

is focusing on Sunday evening

.

The M6 ​​magazine will broadcast a documentary on teenage prostitution at 9 p.m., featuring numerous testimonies from victims and parents.

Guest of

Culture Médias

on Europe 1 on

Friday

, journalist Ophélie Meunier, who presents the program, returned to this scourge which affects between 8,000 and 10,000 young girls in France.

"Unfortunately, a figure on the increase", she assures, recalling that "the number of cases before the courts has multiplied by three in five years". 

But how can these young girls fall into this downward spiral?

Most often, through social networks.

"Too easy access to pornographic sites and social networks has accentuated the phenomenon," explains Ophélie Meunier.

"Young girls can all too easily be tricked on social media by pimps hiding behind accounts by luring them, saying, 'I'm going to protect you, you're going to make money and I'm going to feed you, you find accommodation. You will make money very quickly, very easily. "And they fall into the trap." 

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Because it is the prospect of easy money that most often attracts these teenage girls.

"They say to themselves: 'If I do a normal job, I will earn maybe 1,500 euros per month. Today, 1,500 euros, I can do them in three passes'", develops the guest of Europe 1 , specifying that the law prohibits the prostitution of minors.

“What these girls are doing, besides harming themselves, is illegal,” she continues. 

"It's not easy money, it's violence" 

“The process is always the same, still describes Ophélie Meunier. At the beginning, it is meetings of guys who fall on girls whom they spot a little fragile. They promise them a good evening with a good atmosphere and a little 'alcohol, nice people around, and it ends with girls who are abused and raped. And who often don't see a single penny of what the pimps promise them. "

And to conclude: "It's not easy money, it's violence and rape." 

And this phenomenon, contrary to popular belief, can affect everyone, assures the journalist, "since today, it is still mainly through the Internet and social networks that girls are tricked, and that all young girls have access to it, whatever their social class ".