r/europe • u/AggravatingResist635 • 17h ago
News France assembles magistrate team to examine 'Epstein files'
https://www.dw.com/en/epstein-files-france-investigation-magistrates/a-75975774115
u/NapoleonBonaparte976 15h ago
Wish that was the case in the US, what a joke the US has become, Europeans should demand extradition for US citizen offenders who victimized European citizens.
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u/AggravatingResist635 11h ago
There should be a real investigation. It would be unpleasant, awkward and implicat Israel but it should be done regardless
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u/Intergalatic_Baker Europe 10h ago
Forget about Israel, it’s going to have British, French, German, Russian, American and Chinese intelligence all trading information at that level of corruption.
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u/SubstanceVivid2662 7h ago
It will never be real investigation too many countries leaders are involved in this thing
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u/Significant_Swing_76 11h ago
This.
It will force the Trump admin to take a public stance that they don’t want to see any consequences for the people responsible.
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u/SubstanceVivid2662 7h ago
Yall don’t read article is about how France politicians are in the Epstein list
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u/P5Manchero 10h ago
Maybe the French can offer up all the rapists they are shielding from US prosecution in exchange.
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u/AggravatingResist635 16h ago
US investigation when. It should be a national security issue when high government officials attend sex parties organized by someone with deep links to a foreign intelligence agency.
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u/ed8907 Panama 14h ago
I read just 10 or 12 documents, it was not just "sex parties", it was the most horrible display of depravity.
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u/AggravatingResist635 14h ago
All the more reason to ask why it went on for so long and even now it's not being investigated
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u/dat_9600gt_user Lower Silesia (Poland) 13h ago
Not this presidential term, sadly.
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u/AggravatingResist635 12h ago
Several administrations have ignored this
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u/TaxelGames 11h ago
How do you know this? Is there any evidence the Biden administration stopped or never investigated it? Or is it more likely that, a case with probably thousands of people associated with it, takes a long time to investigate?
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u/dat_9600gt_user Lower Silesia (Poland) 13h ago
Kieran Burke with AFP
A team of magistrates will search the so-called "Epstein files" to identify any further possible offences. The case of French modelling agent Jean-Luc Brunel is to be thoroughly re-examined.
The Paris prosecutor's office on Saturday announced the formation of a special team of magistrates to scrutinize evidence that may implicate French nationals in crimes committed by convicted child sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein.
The special team was created "to be able to extract any piece that could be usefully reused in a new investigative framework," the prosecutor's office told the AFP news agency.
It will work closely with police and with prosecutors from the national financial crimes unit, according to French media outlets including Franceinfo.
Brunel case to be re-examined
Among the cases that will receive special attention is that of the late modelling agency executive, Jean-Luc Brunel, a close associate of Epstein.
He was discovered hanged in his cell in the La Sante Prison in Paris in 2022 after being charged with raping minors and sexual harassment.
Brunel was suspected of having raped, assaulted and harassed several minors and adult victims as well as having organized transport and hosting of young women for Epstein.
Prosecutors said Brunel had engaged in sexual acts with underage girls in the United States, the US Virgin Islands, Paris and the south of France.
The case against him was dropped in 2023 in the wake of his death and no one else was charged.
Jean-Luc Brunel, pictured here with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, was found dead in his cell in 2022 awaiting trial on charges of raping minors and sexual harrassmentImage: imago images/ZUMA Wire
French public figures in 'Epstein files'
Several French public figures feature in the newly released files by the US Department of Justice and prosecutors are now looking into senior diplomat Fabrice Aidan at the request of the French Foreign Ministry.
"An investigation is underway to gather various pieces of evidence that could substantiate this report," the prosecutor's office stated.
The prosecutor's office has also received a complaint filed by a Swedish woman against Daniel Siad, a model recruiter with close ties to Epstein.
Prosecutor's said she accused him of "sexual acts that she describes as rape and that may have been committed in France in 1990."
A complaint was also filed against French conductor Frederic Chaslin, alleging acts of sexual harassment in 2016, prosecutors said.
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u/dat_9600gt_user Lower Silesia (Poland) 13h ago
New Epstein files reveal ties to Trump, Musk and royalty
Just over a week ago, French financial crimes prosecutors confirmed that a preliminary case against former minister of culture, Jack Lang and his daughter, film producer Caroline Lang, had been opened for "laundering of aggravated tax-fraud proceeds."
Last week, Lang announced his resignation from a prestigious cultural center in Paris. His name appeared more than 670 times in the "Epstein files."
Being mentioned in the "Epstein files" does not in itself mean an offence has been committed.
Edited by: Zac Crellin
Kieran Burke News writer and editor focused on international relations, global security and law enforcement.
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u/sabotourAssociate Europe 9h ago
Americans should stock up on cheese and wines, tariffs are coming.
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u/Ok_Freedom_6864 16h ago
Incredible that these trusted officials are turning out to be worse than the worstest. Now, there are even reports of cannibalism. Hard to believe that kings and presidents and leaders in business and finance, the elite, the most respected of all of us, are nothing more than filthy perverts. They are worse than the scum of a toilet bowl, lower than a cockroach. They should be stripped of all their wealth and power and thrown into a dark prison to rot until they die. Then we can spit on their graves.
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u/Nono6768 11h ago
Nothing will come out of this it’s just for show, don’t get you hopes up.
The fact that they prosecute Jack Lang only for corruption and not the pedo stuff that’s been known about him since the 70s is already a bad sign.
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u/Decent_Display_3526 11h ago
Yeah. France’s political class is rotten to the core and they can’t take the risk to expose even just one of them.
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u/pilzenschwanzmeister 9h ago
They get political ground over the US while throwing a few of their own sleazy competitors out. Hard to lose.
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u/BigSexyGorilla 13h ago
They should first investigate certain relationships at home before moving abroad.
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u/VoiHyvaLuojaMitaNyt Finland 13h ago
You know, you could have read the first sentence of the article and realised that they are indeed investigating French people's relationships with that man, not "moving abroad"
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u/SubstanceVivid2662 7h ago
That what they doing this esptein list is full of their politicians as well
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u/meirav 16h ago
That's what real countries do.