An 80-year-old woman was judged, Thursday, for renting his apartment in Montbrison (Loire) to prostitutes through the site. The Tribunal de Saint-Etienne has not convicted, for the benefit of the doubt.
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Thursday, November 25 at the end of the afternoon, it is a singular defendant that appears before the Criminal Court of Saint-Etienne (Loire): M ME F. (The initial of His name has been changed), 80 years old. She is dealing with justice for the first time. This woman with a fifty meter, white hair, white scarf and black jacket, moves to the bar by hovering. The looked looked behind his fine glasses, she looks at the three judges who face her and rule her sonotone. “You are continued for helping or assisted the prostitution of others,” said the President of the Tribunal.
In January 2021, an inhabitant of Montbrison (Loire) reported under anonymity to the gendarmerie that a city center apartment had a high attendance of male people. The gendarmes quickly discovered a prostitution activity and identified the owner, Ms. F., that they placed on their way. This allowed them to stop 51 clients, since by criminal order, and to interrogate several prostitutes. All recognized the facts.
It was established only from December 2019 to May 2021, the apartment of Mrs. F. was regularly rented by prostitutes, for an average duration of a dozen days. They contacted their customers on a dating site and gave them an appointment in the home, which they had booked on the airbnb platform with M me F. “I did not know what ‘They were doing, he defended himself before the court, in a very low voice. They told me that they came to Montbrison to see their family, friends or for an internship. “When the President asks him if she does Never had doubts about their activities, she answers naively: “I trusted Airbnb, I thought they were choosing respectable tenants.”
“I made myself having”
During his custody, the defendant has given the investigators who have thought that these girls, all strangers, could be prostitutes. “The gendarmes have made me say anything,” she retorted, stalled against his desk in wood. They interviewed me for eight o’clock while I had a herniated disc and that I barely standing. “Another piece of intrigue The Chair: The fact that it continued to rent his apartment without going through Airbnb, and that it was paid in cash. “They proposed to me to do the rentals directly,” said the defendant. And when the president still seeks to know if she has never had any doubts, m me declares: “How do you want me to know that they prostitute themselves? In addition, each time that they made my apartment, it was immaculate, very clean. “
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