Paris (AFP)
State secretaries Marlène Schiappa (Equality between women and men) and Adrien Taquet (child protection) on Monday called for the opening of an investigation in France concerning the Jeffrey Epstein affair, the American financier found dead in prison on Saturday and who was prosecuted for multiple attacks on minors.
"The US investigation has highlighted links with France, it seems to us fundamental for the victims, an investigation is opened in France so that all the light is made," write the two ministers in a statement, without giving more details at this stage.
"The death of Mr Epstein must not deprive victims of the justice to which they are entitled: it is an essential condition for their reconstruction, it is also a condition for more effective protection in the future of others. girls face this type of organized networks, facing this type of predators, "write Ms. Schiappa and Mr. Taquet.
In a letter addressed to the public prosecutor of Paris and reproduced on the site of L'Obs, the association Innocence in danger indicates having sent him an alert on July 23 and underlines that "France is concerned by this file since investigations carried out by the FBI reveal several persons of French nationality ".
Innocence in danger quotes a "reliable source" according to which "several victims of the prostitutional network created by Jeffrey Epstein and his accomplices are also of French nationality".
The death in prison of 66-year-old Jeffrey Epstein, accused of bringing dozens of minors to his luxury residences, including in New York and Florida, for forced sex, immediately gave rise to several theories of conspiracy and to a scandal in the United States, some believing more in murder than in suicide because of its many connections in circles of power.
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