Three feminist associations had seized justice after testimonies from women who assured that they had been forced to “extraordinary and painful sexual practices”.
Le Monde with AFP
The owner of the pornographic site Jacquie et Michel, Michel Piron, his wife and three other people were placed in police custody, Tuesday, June 14, announced the Paris prosecutor’s office at the France-Presse agency. This measure was taken “within the framework of a preliminary investigation for supposed facts of pimping, complicity in rape and complicity of sexual assault between 2009 and 2015,” said Nicolas Cellipica, lawyer for the ARES group, of the site.
Since the opening of the investigation, “Michel Piron has always asked to be heard by the investigators and to answer openly to their questions,” assured M e Cellipica. “He always said to himself on the side of the victims if actresses have suffered acts of sexual violence which he did not know perfectly.” “The group Jacquie et Michel never produced or produced a film. He is only a broadcaster Films made by independent producers, “insisted the group’s advice. “Finally, pornography has never been assimilated to prostitution: a porn actress is not a prostitute and a director or diffuser is not a pimp,” said the lawyer.
Sexual practices without consent
The prosecution had entrusted this investigation in July 2020, opened after a report addressed by associations Dare feminism, cheeky and nest movement, to the Parisian judicial police. These associations relayed the testimonies of several actresses who assured having been forced to “extraordinary and painful sexual practices” while they were not consenting.
This report had followed the broadcast in February by the site Konbini of a video entitled” The sordid behind the scenes of amateur porn “, in which two women testified to these practices. In a survey book entitled Judy, Lola, Sofia and me (ed. Goutte d’Or, 2018), journalist Robin d’Angelo told his infiltration in the amateur porn industry and denounced the recurring absence of consent and non-compliance with labor law.
The group, which announced 15 million euros in turnover in 2016, according to the journalist, based its success on the purchase at low prices of amateurs’ videos in France, before gradually professionalizing its production. The company founded in 1999 competes now Dorcel, one of the leaders in the pornographic industry.