The Paris MP opened an investigation into ‘human trafficking’ after the US government released thousands of files from the case of the sex offender, who died in 2019
New alleged victims of American sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein have contacted the Paris Public Prosecutor’s Office, said prosecutor Laure Beccau this Sunday (17). The Paris MP opened an investigation into “human trafficking” after the United States government released thousands of files from the case of the sex offender, who died in 2019.
O objective is to identify those who could have helped Epstein in the execution of six crimes in France, such as, for example, introducing the victims to him. “None of the people who may be investigated have been questioned so far,” the prosecutor told RTL radio.
Almost 20 victims came forward, including 10 of which the MP was not aware. “We recovered Epstein’s computer, his telephone devices, his address books” and they are being analyzed again, Beccau said. According to her, when investigators have “complete” knowledge of “Epstein’s relationships with the other protagonists” of his network in France, the “accused will be interrogated.”
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alongside his ex-girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell. He allegedly recruited teenagers to perform sexual acts in exchange for money at his properties in New York, Florida, New Mexico and on his private island in the Caribbean, between 2002 and 2005. Investigations against the millionaire began in 2005, after the parents of a 14-year-old girl reported that the financier had sexually abused the young girl at his home in Palm Beach, Florida.
Jeffrey Epstein was born and raised in New York City. Despite not having graduated from higher education, he began his career as a mathematics teacher at the elite Dalton School, in the famous Manhattan neighborhood. But the origin of the millionaire’s fortune is in the financial market.
The American joined the investment bank Bear Stearns in 1976 – at the time, the institution’s executive director was Alan Greenberg, who had children who attended Dalton School. Working with investments helped him build a network of contacts, especially after founding his own company in the area, J. Epstein and Co, in 1982.
*With information from AFP
