France: detained military from Eastern Europe on suspected pimp

Six military from French Foreign Legion were detained in France. They are suspected of creating a criminal network for the provision of sex services. This was told on October 23 on the air France 3 TV channel.

It is known that the detainees arrived in Legion from Eastern Europe, but their nationality is not specified. All six soldiers were submitted immediately a few charges: “Himmers with aggravating circumstances”, “human trafficking”, “money laundering” and “participation in the criminal community”.

The investigation began in 2020. Then in the west of France, a prostitute was detained with a large sum of money and a large margin of contraceptives. Following her testimony, law enforcement officers went to the underground brothel in the province of him, where the headquarters of the criminal network was located. As a result, it turned out that the military from the Legion was rented apartments and engaged in advertising prostitutes.

On October 19, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez promised to introduce a ban and criminal responsibility for prostitution in the country. According to politics, the sex service industry “enslaves women.” Today, about 300 thousand women are engaged in prostitution in Spain, some of them, according to police estimates, is in sexual slavery.

/Media reports.