The proprietor of a French porn web site and 4 others have been detained by police Tuesday in Paris following an investigation into alleged rape and pimping, prosecutors mentioned.
The “Jacquie et Michel” web site payments itself as a hub for “novice” porn movies and has been the goal of abuse claims by ladies who say they’ve suffered violence on set.
Proprietor Michel Piron and his spouse have been taken into custody “over alleged pimping, complicity in rape and complicity in sexual assault between 2009 and 2015,” mentioned Nicolas Cellupica, a lawyer for the corporate that owns the web site.
Paris prosecutors confirmed the couple and three others have been arrested.
Police opened an investigation into the web site in July 2020 after feminist teams mentioned actresses complained of being subjected to non-consensual “out of the atypical and painful” sexual acts.
Final month, representatives of “Jacquie et Michel” and France’s different main porn web site Dorcel have been grilled by senators over practices within the trade after dozens of girls got here ahead with abuse tales.
Final October, 4 French porn actors have been charged with rape for the primary time, over movies out there for streaming on the “French Bukkake” web site.
Feminists in France and elsewhere have been campaigning to elevate the taboo over violence in an trade wherein ladies have lengthy been portrayed as consenting to such acts.
Within the US, porn star Ron Jeremy is because of stand trial for the rape or sexual assault of 21 ladies and women, though in March a Los Angeles decide mentioned he should first be psychiatrically assessed.
