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“On the garden side, you have the graphic designer who amazes children, then on the courtyard side, Bolhem Bouchiba is a pedophile director who scripts his own horror films. » It was with these words that the attorney general introduced his indictment at the trial of Bolhem Bouchiba, sentenced this week to twenty-five years of criminal imprisonment with a two-thirds security period.
The former graphic designer for Pixar and Disney studios – who notably worked on The Incredibles et Ratatouille – admitted the facts: complicity in rape, sexual assault on minors, repeat offenses, and complicity in human trafficking. Between 2012 and 2021, this man from Deux-Sèvres (79) paid women to rape hundreds of little girls aged 5 to 10 years old, in the Philippines, in front of the camera, that is to say in « live-streaming ».
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A practice on the rise in the Philippines, consumed by Western countries – mainly in France, Germany and the United States –, which earned the accused the addition of the aggravating circumstance of acts of torture and barbarity. Already in 2014, he was convicted of sexually assaulting his 9-year-old stepdaughter, and his name was then included in the sex offender file.
