All guilty, except one. The sanction fell this Friday, January 24, at the Pontoise court (Val-d'Oise) on Friday, January 24, where seven people were tried since Thursday for acts of aggravated pimping committed between 2022 and 2023 due to the age of the victims, 14 and 16 years.
The court followed the prosecution's requisitions, pronouncing sentences ranging from twelve months suspended prison sentence to four years in prison, half of which were firm. Only an defendant obtained the release for all of the facts alleged in this case, in accordance with what his lawyer had argued.
The heaviest sentence was pronounced against the Exaucée N., boyfriend of Lucie L. at the time of the facts, sentenced to four years in prison, two years of which firm for her involvement in the prostitution of the two minors, at separate periods.
The author of sexual assault on young Lydia (The first name has been changed)at the Roissy-en-France F1 hotel where the police investigation began, has received a three-year conviction including a firm year and a registration in the sex offender file. Another man, arrested after telephone investigations was sentenced to two years, one of which is in prison. The one who had reserved the hotel room gets away with twelve months suspended.
“Disposable products, single use”
The lawyer for civil parties, Master Gallon, paints a portrait of these pimps to the short week: “Young people from the neighborhoods, little inserted in the professional world, with criminal record and known for stories of narcotics”, of the genre to consider the body of others as “disposable products, for single use”. The representative of the public prosecutor has deplored that similar proxenetism affairs are increasingly common in the Val d'Oise, facilitated in particular by social networks and digital platforms. He also insisted on the profile of the victims, made up of “complex life course and fragile family structures”.
-And the prosecutor to annoy the apparent bad faith of defendants relating to their ignorance of the age of the victims or their activities: “We have men who eat a macdo while teens make blowjobs in a chamber D 'hotel “. She notes that Driss (The first name has been changed) is still under treatment two years after the facts and that Lydia is unfortunately still not present at the hearing, despite having maintained their hope with her lawyer. “Lydia and Driss will be impacted for life”, thunders the magistrate, then evoking the gear having caught up the girl, with the pursuit of her prostitution activities. “And unfortunately, we may never catch up with her,” she worries.
The court also followed the prosecution's requisitions concerning the girls prosecuted. But their prostitution activities and their dependence, too, to pimps, earned them a certain leniency. Noélie C., who had met the two victims in the home of the Red Cross where they were accommodated, seemed particularly affected this Friday. She was eighteen months suspended prison sentence. Lucie L. received fourteen months in the same circumstances. All, mackerels and mackerels, will have to comply with work, care obligations, and the prohibition to get in touch with their victims.
“I think we can still help Lydia get out of it,” says one of the many educators at the hearing. It also evokes the image of these vehicles which regularly come to recover girls in homes like that of the Red Cross in Argenteuil. And against which they feel very disarmed.
