In late June, two men, including a police officer, were charged with human trafficking and the rape of a minor, in which the former CEO of the Assu 2000 group, Jacques Boutier, was detained, Thursday, July 7, said. judicial source, confirming the information of Le Monde.
The number of accused in this case is increased to eight. One of them, a former boxer turned private security service, was charged with criminal association, sexual assault of a minor under 15, and active corruption of a person with “state power,” according to Le Monde. Detention was chosen as a preventive measure against him. The other, a police officer from the police station of La Courneuve (Saint-Saint-Denis), is specifically being prosecuted for passive corruption by a person in public authority and complicity in breach of professional secrecy.
According to Le Monde, the two men “it is suspected that he was part of a team paid by Jacques Boutier, the former CEO of an insurance brokerage group, to cover up the case.“. Jacques Boutier, 75, who has been charged since May 21 with rape of a minor and human trafficking, is also suspected of trying to form a team to kidnap a young woman who filmed herself in bed with a 14-year-old boy. According to a source familiar with the case, cited by RTL radio, which broke the story, a 22-year-old woman turned herself in to Paris police in March, explaining that for five years “captivea rich man who raped her. Becoming, in his words,too old for him“The young woman would have to be found”substitutetake over and therefore find this 14-year-old girl, hoping to trap the businessman.
As reported by Le Monde, the boxer contacted the Courneuve police officer and recruited three of his teammates, one of whom has since been acquitted, to go to the 22-year-old woman’s house and check on her presence there. The police headquarters confirmed to AFP that it has launched an administrative investigation into the officers. Contacted by AFP, the lawyer of the police officer under investigation, Mae Corinne Dreyfus-Schmidt, emphasized that his client “subjected to judicial supervision“. “He denies taking part in the allegation– he said, adding:he was manipulated by the person who asked him to intervene“.
Source: Le Figaro
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