At the end of last week, the Haute-Corse prefecture organized a seminar in Bastia dedicated to the fight against prostitution.
Although street soliciting is still less frequent than elsewhere, it often happens via the internet and social networks, for both adults and minors.
Some of the people who resort to prostitution carry out this activity as part of activities linked to organized crime, while others, particularly young women who are minors or just adults, do so for reasons of insecurity.
Co-chairing this seminar, Jean-Philippe Navarre, public prosecutor of Bastia, underlines the difficulty of countering these networks and these practices, very often outside known physical locations. However, two pimping cases will be judged in 2025.
Concerning procedures against clients, they are also few in number due to the difficulty of establishing flagrant offenses given the virtual absence of street prostitution. Despite everything, the criminal response, when possible, often involves sanctions that are more focused on prevention, awareness-raising, and the treatment of what is, in the eyes of the prosecutor, deviance.
We listen to Jean-Philippe Navarre, public prosecutor of Bastia.
A study carried out by Marie Peretti-Ndiaye made it possible to learn a little more about the typology of prostitution in Corsica. This mainly concerns women, with also a minority of transgender people. Their geographical origins are multiple, with women from Eastern Europe, but also from Africa and South America.
Precariousness is the main cause of the process of prostitution, followed by situations of professional breakdown, or addictions to finance.
A factor of improvement identified is the care of these people to get them out of this turmoil, since only 37% of the prostitutes questioned in this study benefited from referrals to associative or social contacts allowing them to commit to leaving this activity.
We listen to Marie Peretti-Ndiaye.
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