It is reproached to these very mobile individuals to be at the head of a “larger” network that does not suggest the number of “three victims” known to date, according to a source close to the investigation .
Le Monde with AFP
Four Bulgarian nationals were indicted for aggravated procuring and deals with human being after their interpellation, in mid-April, in an informal camp of Bruges, north of Bordeaux, from which they operated a network of Prostitution, said Friday, April 22, the prosecution and a source close to the investigation.
It is blamed with these very mobile individuals, who cross the borders easily, to be at the head of a “larger” “network of” larger “that suggests the number of” three victims “known to This day, explained a source close to the investigation.
They found young women in Bulgaria, that they persuaded to come to France. Prostitutes under the constraint on bordeaux boulevards or road driver parking areas, these women were “threatened, abused” if they resisted and were “maintained in a state of material dependence,” said this source.
The investigation, initiated in 2019 and conducted by the brigade of repression of banditry and procuring, under the direction of the specialized interregional court of Bordeaux, focused on the alleged leader of the network, a 36-year-old man. arrested with his wife and two other men, his “lieutenants”.
orders from prison
According to the same source, confirming Information from the South West newspaper, this man has been able to continue to direct the network, while he was incarcerated in Bulgaria in 2020, giving orders to his wife Since its cell.
Since 2019, the implications have crossed borders with multiple times and alternates stays in France, Bulgaria, Germany and Italy, where the man operating at the head of the network is already known for facts. Similar.
Three of the implications were placed in pre-trial detention and a fourth, under judicial control, according to the parquet of Bordeaux, which did not wish to “communicate on the magnitude of the network” and the number of victims.
Cash money and a “German sedan of high value” were seized during the arrest of the four individuals, according to the source close to the investigation, which explains that their criminal activity assured them “certain lifestyle “in Bulgaria.