Violent sexual acts “surprised” in actresses recruited through tricks: A trial was ordered on Thursday against 17 men suspected of being involved in a scheme that led to the serious rapes of dozens of women during filming for the porn platform French Bukkake has led.
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Aged 29 to 61, director of this now closed platform, employee, recruiter of actresses or actors, according to sources, they are convicted by the Paris departmental criminal court, in particular for gang rape, human trafficking in an organized gang or aggravated pimping, which is close to the matter.
Four of the defendants are currently in custody.
About fifty victims were identified, on average around twenty years old, and were targeted because of their precarious situation. Forty of them and four associations, Les Effrontées, the Mouvement du Nid, Dare Feminism and the League of Human Rights, are civil parties.
“The investigation revealed that the violence committed against these women was systematic in nature,” emphasized Me Lorraine Questiaux, who represents several civic parties, including Le Nid.
The court information opened in October 2020 focused on the “system” set up by Julien D., a 42-year-old father from Reims, according to the order signed by two Paris judges, which AFP was aware of.
His lawyers declined to comment at this time.
“cunning”
In an industry where new actresses are “rare and difficult to recruit,” Julien D. is accused of playing three consecutive virtual characters from 2013 to 2019 that attracted young women: a reassuring friend who persuaded her to date Escort to begin; the director of a so-called luxury agency who recruited her; a supposed client of this agency, whom they then met for a paid report.
Julien D. is accused of using this “strategy” to rape about thirty of these women and then “reducing” them to filming mainly under the auspices of two figures of the so-called amateur porn, the director of the French bukkake site and the director’s nickname Pascal OP and his collaborator named Mat Hadix.
They were then promised good remuneration, good treatment and a certain degree of discretion when broadcasting outside France. However, they complain that they have suffered serious rapes again on site. The films were then distributed via French Bukkake, particularly in France.
Pascal OP is also being referred to criminal court for serious pimping because he enabled customers who paid a subscription to his platform or offered their apartment as a filming location to participate in videos. His lawyer could not be reached on Thursday.
The order emphasizes that “the system could not thrive without the participation of actors and other directors who took advantage of the two to three days of filming these young women before they were questioned.”
Many plaintiffs mentioned filming under the influence of alcohol and drugs and were “stunned” when they learned the number of male partners and the sexual acts to be performed, which were “surprisingly linked,” the judges said.
Racist and sexist prejudices
“We were tortured,” one of them assured AFP. “Today I have to relive the barbarism, sexist and racist hatred of which I was a victim in order to be recognized and punished.”
Many civil parties had asked the court to declare that the rapes during filming were accompanied by torture, barbarism and racism, but the two judges refused. Many want to appeal.
Like the League of Human Rights, which, according to its lawyer Valentine Rebérioux, “wants to ensure that this process is also one of the most disgusting racist and sexist prejudices”.
The aggravating circumstances of torture and barbarism could have taken the case to the assize court and allowed for “a real debate with jurors on the first trial for crimes against humanity of women,” according to Me Questiaux, or, according to Me Seydi Ba, representing a victim and has already filed an appeal to “debate the concepts of rape and consent.”
Most of those involved denied having good knowledge of the system and asserted that the women agreed with it.
I, Dylan Slama, an actor’s attorney, hopes to “finally explain the reality of (his) client’s journey, which is not that of a sexual attacker.”
Several defendants have indicated their intention to appeal. On their behalf, Messrs. Mourad Battikh and Antoine Ory castigated “an order without surprises” after an “exclusively incriminating” investigation.