Around 10 ‘new’ victims emerge in France’s expanding Epstein probe
Authorities target French perpetrators who facilitated the late American sex offender’s crimes
Around 10 “new” suspected victims have come forward in a French investigation into the network of the late US sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a prosecutor said on Sunday.
France opened a human trafficking investigation after the US Justice Department in January released the latest cache of files from the investigation into the disgraced financier, who died in prison in 2019 while facing charges of trafficking underage girls for sex.
French magistrates are seeking to investigate possible offences committed in France or involving French perpetrators who facilitated his crimes.
Top Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau said around 20 suspected victims had made themselves known after she in February urged potential victims to speak up.
Some were already known to investigators, she told the RTL broadcaster.
“But we also had new victims come forward, ones we didn’t know at all. There are around 10 of them,” she added.