The Parisian apartment of an elected official from Seine-et-Marne would have housed prostitution activity

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The investigation of the Brigade of repression of pimping is closed and Alban Lanselle, an elected official of Nangis (Seine-et-Marne), is referred to the criminal court from Paris on November 19, 2024. Manager of SCI, he is suspected of having sheltered a prostitution activity In one of his Parisian apartments for rent, avenue Lowendal, in the 15^e arrondissement.

An “amalgam”?

It is The Seine-et-Marne Monitor who revealed this case of alleged hotel pimping involving “an elected official from Brie Nangissienne”. Contacted by The Republic of Seine-et-Marnethe accused completely denies the facts and deplores the fact that there is a “conflation” between his position as an elected official and his personal real estate. His lawyer, M^e Jean-Christophe Hanoteau, will plead relaxes her. “My client does not live on the premises and did not expect an activity like this,” he emphasizes. He was fooled and he had no reason to get into this kind of thing, especially because of his elected status. »

A guideline at the origin of the investigation

According to our information, it was a local resident who denounced the alleged facts, by filing a handrail. An ad offering sexual services priced at this address was discovered on the website sexemodel.com.

The neighborhood investigation confirmed that the accommodation would have been occupied by two women and a man, and that local residents would have been disturbed by the numerous comings and goings of individuals likely to be customers. The co-ownership trustee would have reported these facts by lawyer’s letter to the owner, who responded to them in March 2023 that they did not have proof. “He did not take any particular action,” indicates a source close to the matter.

“I responded the following week, with a registered letter,” assures Alban Lanselle. Nothing was brought to me. I challenged the tenant who denied it, I could not initiate an eviction measure without evidence! »

Search and arrests

Telephone interceptions and a surveillance device made it possible to confirm the frequentation of the place by clients of prostitutes. On June 3, 2024, one of them was arrested on site in flagrante delicto. A search was carried out and Alban Lanselle, who has a total around thirty goods real estate, was arrested in Seine-et-Marne.

According to the hearings, the owner would have received a rent monthly of 2,050 euros in casheach beginning of the month.

For making this private premises available to a person engaging in prostitution there, from January 2022 to June 3, 2024, Alban Lanselle faces 10 years of imprisonment. prison et 750 000 € fine.

Another suspect, presented as being in charge of security, is liable to 10 years and a fine of 1.5 million euros. Remember that the two men, who have not yet been tried, are presumed innocent.

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