{"id":17432,"date":"2026-05-18T13:49:59","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T01:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=17432"},"modified":"2026-05-18T13:49:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T01:49:59","slug":"about-10-new-victims-in-frances-jeffrey-epstein-probe-prosecutor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=17432","title":{"rendered":"About 10 ‘new’ victims in France’s Jeffrey Epstein probe: prosecutor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Around 10 “new” suspected victims have come forward in a French probe into the network of late US sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a prosecutor said Sunday.<\/p>\n

France opened a human trafficking investigation after the US Justice Department in January released the latest\u00a0cache of files<\/a>\u00a0from the investigation into the disgraced financier, who died in prison in 2019 while facing charges of trafficking underage girls for sex.<\/p>\n

French magistrates are seeking to investigate possible offences committed in France or involving French perpetrators who facilitated his crimes.<\/p>\n

Top Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau said around 20 suspected victims had made themselves known after she in February urged potential victims to speak up.<\/p>\n

Some were already known to investigators, she told the RTL broadcaster.<\/p>\n

“But we also had new victims come forward, ones we didn’t know at all. There are around 10 of them,” she added.<\/p>\n

“The choice we’ve made for the time being is to listen to these victims,” she said.<\/p>\n

“A certain number of them are abroad so the investigators have tried to set up meetings to suit when they are able to come to Paris.”<\/p>\n

Investigators were also scouring through the so-called Epstein files, and would be searching them for any names mentioned by alleged victims, she said.<\/p>\n

“We have also once again pulled out Mr Epstein’s computers, his telephone records, his address books,” she said, adding her team would be “making requests for international assistance”.<\/p>\n

French investigators searched Epstein’s luxury Paris apartment in September 2019, after he was found hanged in his New York jail cell the previous month.<\/p>\n

Suspected victims already known to investigators included women who had spoken during investigations into former European model agency boss Gerald Marie and late model agent\u00a0Jean-Luc Brunel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Fifteen women in March urged France to investigate Marie for possible links to Epstein.<\/p>\n

Investigators in 2023 closed another probe into accusations Marie committed sexual abuse in the 1980s and 1990s because it was too long ago to be prosecuted.<\/p>\n

French authorities arrested Brunel in 2020 after allegations he sexually abused minors and procured victims for the US billionaire. He was found dead in prison in 2022.<\/p>\n

Two former models have told AFP that a modelling scout named Daniel Siad groomed them with the aim of delivering them to Epstein in one case in the 2000s, and Marie in the other case in the 1990s.<\/p>\n

In the latest human trafficking probe, “none of the people who could potentially be implicated have been questioned” so far, Beccuau said.<\/p>\n

Epstein pleaded guilty in 2008 to procuring for prostitution a girl under the age of 18, and served 13 months in prison before being released on probation.<\/p>\n

Source: AFP & RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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