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  • The false profile of a 12-year-old schoolgirl was created by a couple from Mont-de-Marsan in the Landes.
  • A 48-year-old man quickly made contact, making salacious remarks.
  • A meeting was then organized and filmed with a hidden camera.

Trapped by a couple posing as a teenager. A man, 48 years old, appeared Friday at the Mont-de-Marsan police station where he was placed in police custody, after falling into the trap of a Montois couple, who had created a false profile Facebook.

The prosecutor of the republic of Mont-de-Marsan said Saturday in South West that this man will be tried according to the procedure of appearance at short notice on March 24 next. He will remain incarcerated until then.

"A twelve year old girl (...) in the fifth grade"

The man had been trapped by a couple who had created a fake Facebook profile at the end of January: "an ignorant twelve-year-old girl, Matt Pokora fan, in fifth grade," detailed the trapper on a video entitled "We trap a pedophile" posted on his Facebook account.

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 certain individuals and very quickly they went on the attack. During discussions with certain people, an unhealthy atmosphere was felt. "

"We were shocked to come across someone around us"

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 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 remain 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.

Making proposals of a sexual nature to a minor under the age of fifteen or to a person posing as such is punishable by two years 'imprisonment and five years' imprisonment in the event of a physical encounter.

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