In pre-trial detention since 2020 after charges of rapes in connection with the Jeffrey Epstein case, he was found hanged in his cell. An investigation is open.
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The main implicated in France in the Tentacular Epstein affair is no longer. Jean-Luc Brunel, 75, was found dead hanged in his cell in the Paris Prison in Paris, on the night Friday 18 to Saturday, February 19th.
The parquet of Paris announced on Saturday initiate an investigation, entrusted to the third judicial police district, to explain the causes of the death of the former mannequin officer and close to Jeffrey Epstein. The American billionaire, accused of being at the heart of a vast sex trafficking involving minors – that Jean-Luc Brunel was suspected of providing through his model of models – had also been found hanged in his cell of Metropolitan Correctional Center New York on August 10, 2019. The investigation had concluded a suicide.
Jean-Luc Brunel had been in pre-trial detention since December 2020 and his arrest at Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle airport, while it was about to take a flight to Dakar, Senegal. Mr. Brunel, who had not been found for months, had just been indicted for “minor rapes over 15”, “sexual harassment”; and placed under the status of witness assisted for “deals with aggravated human beings”. It will be repeatedly indicted for rape on minor at the end of June 2021. “Jean-Luc Brunel has ceased to claim his innocence. He has multiplied his efforts to prove it,” said his lawyers, M ES Mathias Chichortish, Marianne Abgrall and Christophe Ingrain, in a text sent to the world.
Expatriation in the United States
In November 2021, Jean-Luc Brunel had been briefly released under judicial review, before the Chamber of Instruction of the Paris Court of Appeal decides his reminder. His lawyers had appealed on this decision, described as “unworthy”. For his advice, who suggests that Mr. Brunel would have ended his life, his “distress”, “that of a 75-year-old man crushed by a medical-judicial system”, “explains” his decision “, guided by a “Deep feeling of injustice”.
The French is at the center of the Jeffrey Epstein case, a billionaire American already accused of sexual assault, and whose fall really occurs in 2005, when the mother of a 14-year-old woman accuses him To have taken his daughter into his property for sexual games against remuneration. The survey quickly shows that the financier exploits several minors, which it also offers to knowledge. According to the Prosecution, young women are provided by his assistant and companion Ghislaine Maxwell – currently imprisoned after being convicted of “sexual crimes” by American justice – but also by Jean-Luc Brunel.
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