The victim is only 15 years old.

Sequestered and prostituted by force, she explained to the police, the teenager managed to put an end to her ordeal by contacting a loved one to denounce the facts.

This friend would then have called 17, explained the prosecutor Marie-Céline Lawrysz to AFP, confirming information from the

Parisian

.

Three men and a woman were thus placed in police custody on Sunday in Compiègne, suspected of "aggravated pimping", we learned from the prosecution.

Facts that remain to be “clarified”

Originally from around Reims, the teenager "placed in a home by a children's judge in Châlons-en-Champagne for about two years" would have "run away since May", according to the prosecutor.

“She says that she prostituted herself first in Paris, then wanted to escape her Parisian pimps, and was taken in by a man who took her to Amiens, where she also prostituted herself, before to arrive in Compiègne," explained Ms Lawrysz.

“She would have been a prostitute for about three weeks in Compiègne.

She says that at the start she was prostituting herself of her own free will, then the situation escalated, and she would have been sequestered”, she continued, specifying that the facts “remained to be clarified”.

The three men in question are from Essonne, Seine-Saint-Denis and Hauts-de-Seine, and known, for at least two of them, for acts of violence, drug trafficking or theft .

The fourth is from Compiègne, and suspected of having "hosted the victim in a Compiègne apartment".

The victim “states that she went to customers” for the passes, she said.

Implications to be “determined”

Everyone's involvement "remains to be determined", she said.

But in the cases of pimping on minors, “we are often faced with young girls who are in a difficult psychological situation or financially precarious.

Alone, on the street, they have to be housed on the right and left and quickly go into prostitution to earn money”.

The respondents may have acted "pure opportunity" by "taking advantage of his weakness".

Arrested on Saturday around 3:30 p.m., they could remain in custody for 96 hours.

The teenager also “denounced several other people”.

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  • Hauts-de-France

  • Sequestration

  • Violence against women

  • Prostitution

  • Pimping

  • Miscellaneous facts