Pimping network in an Aibnb apartment in the heart of Montpellier: two young people released

Le Raid était intervenu dans cet immeuble du cœur de Montpellier. ML – GR

Le Raid était intervenu pour libérer trois victimes et interpeller un couple de proxénètes, en août dernier, Grand’rue Jean-Moulin. Deux autres jeunes ayant contribué à exploiter ce réseau étaient en détention depuis octobre dernier.

During the night of August 30 to 31, around 3 a.m., a woman aged around twenty called on the 17th to report that ;rsquo;she was held against her will at 41 Grand’rue Jean-Moulin with two other young victims. They were only allowed to go out for twenty minutes a day to walk a dog. One of them took advantage of this moment to raise the alarm.

The anti-crime squad came to make sure she was telling the truth. And as the pimp was armed, the Raid was called in as reinforcements to attack the apartment rented on Airbnb. A 27-year-old man and his 21-year-old partner were arrested, and a semi-automatic pistol with a magazine was found at the scene.

The investigation determined that the victims aged 18, 19 and 22 were forced to prostitute themselves in turn in different cities, where apartments were rented on the internet platform .

The victim had testified

In addition to the couple arrested in the Écusson, other individuals had also collaborated in this pimping network. They had been arrested in Burgundy, in October, in another case of the same type.

Among them, there were three men, including a minor, released last week, and a 19-year-old who also requested an end to his pre-trial detention before the Montpellier investigating chamber.

A victim, detained in an apartment rented in the name of the young man, told the police that he had been taken there by force and beaten by the young man, before being forced into prostitution.

Before investigators, the young man from the Lyon region pleaded that he had been forced to act in this way because of a debt for narcotics owed to his cousin, the third man arrested.

The expert psychiatrist described him as "immature", without noting < em>"deficiency in his education". According to him, the defendant "did not trivialize the facts" which he is accused of.

Despite a somewhat vague life plan, he was released after eight months of pre-trial detention.

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