The Paris prosecutor announced Wednesday, September 11, that three alleged victims of US billionaire Jeffrey Epstein were heard by the French judicial police in the context of the investigation against X for rape of minors, including. They were auditioned on August 27, September 3 and 9.
A call for witnesses was also launched as part of the French investigations into the Epstein scandal. This call, posted on twitter by the Central Office for the repression of the violence to the people (OCRVP), concerns "any victim or witness" who would like "to contact the service of investigation" in order to be heard.
[# CallingLinks] The #police judiciaire, under the direction of the Parquet of Paris, seeks witnesses in the case #Epstein.
Specialized police officers are mobilized.
If you have been a victim or witness, contact:
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An investigation for rape and sexual assault
Alerted on potential French victims, the prosecutor's office opened in August an investigation for "rape" and "sexual assault", particularly on minors, in the context of the investigation of the US financier Jeffrey Epstein, continued in the United States before his suicide in prison in July.
The investigators are particularly interested in the role played by the French model agent Jean-Luc Brunel, former close to Jeffrey Epstein, accused of rape by several former supermodels.
In a letter sent to the public prosecutor of Paris, RĂ©my Heitz, one of them, heard Monday by the investigators, claims to have been drugged and raped by Jean-Luc Brunel in a Paris apartment in the early 1990s while she was just a major.
According to the account of this 46-year-old Dutch girl, several models lived in this apartment on Avenue Hoche, near the Champs-Élysées, and receptions were organized "daily" with "rich businessmen who were accompanied by very young girls ".
The name of Jean-Luc Brunel, founder of modeling agencies Karin Models and MC2 Model Management, already appeared in the US procedure. One of the main plaintiffs, Virginia Giuffre, claimed to have been forced to have sex with Jean-Luc Brunel.
In a first proceeding in the United States closed in 2007, two women had already accused him of playing the role of reel for Jeffrey Epstein, bringing to the United States "girls" from modest backgrounds by dangling jobs in the United States. modeling.
The association Innocence in danger - who, since August, had called the public prosecutor of Paris to open an investigation, and indicated to have received ten testimonies concerning acts related to the affair Eptein committed on the French soil - s is said Wednesday "delighted" with the call for witnesses launched by justice.
With AFP and Reuters