The boss of "Jacquie et Michel" and four suspects brought to justice

After four days in police custody, Michel Piron, the boss of the pornographic site "Jacquie et Michel", his wife, Araceli, and three other people were brought this Friday morning before an investigating judge as part of an open judicial investigation for "heads of aggravated pimping, trafficking in human beings in an organized gang, rape and complicity in rape, rape and complicity in gang rape and rape with torture and act of barbarism", said the Paris prosecutor's office at

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Michel Piron, 64, is detained in particular for sexual assault as well as for complicity in several offenses including aggravated rape, aggravated pimping and trafficking in human beings, according to the Paris prosecutor's office.

Three men, presented as "actors" by a source close to the case, are in particular in police custody for aggravated rape or in a meeting, trafficking in human beings or even pimping, according to the prosecution.

“Jacquie et Michel is only a film distributor”

The investigation was opened in July 2020 after a report from three feminist associations, Dare feminism, the Effronté-es and the movement of the Nid, and entrusted to the Parisian judicial police.

Several actresses, whose testimonies had been relayed by these associations, had confided that they had been forced into ""non-standard and painful" sexual practices", without their consent.

Since then, "Michel Piron has always asked to be heard by the investigators and to answer their questions openly", indicated Me Cellupica on Tuesday.

"He has always said on the side of the victims if actresses have suffered acts of sexual violence that he was completely unaware of", added the lawyer, stressing that "the group 'Jacquie and Michel' has never produced or made of film and only distributes films made by independent producers".

"Finally, pornography has never been equated with prostitution: a porn actress is not a prostitute and a director or broadcaster is not a pimp," he insisted the lawyer.

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