The 20-year-old pimp lived off the “activity” of his girlfriend, a prostitute at 17

On September 22, Flora, a 17-year-old girl, scantily dressed, rushes onto the balcony of a hotel room at 5, rue Masséna in Nice. She calls for help.

Did she know her attacker? The answers are fuzzy and hesitant. The police quickly understand, although she denies it, that it is about a young prostitute whom a client has just assaulted to steal her. They arrest her boyfriend shortly after, 20 years old. The young Romanian couple, originally from Bucharest, explains that they have come on vacation to the Coast. The young man admits to having photographed Flora, photos found on various escort-girls sites.

The investigators discover that the young girl would have started to prostitute herself in Romania, but also in Paris, Dijon, Lyon and finally Nice.

“We thought we had found happiness”

During his immediate appearance before the criminal court on Monday afternoon, the young pimp apologizes: “I regret a lot. When you do something stupid, you pay for it. I was relieved when I recognized the facts. A sentence, it will be a beginning but at the same time I’m afraid of losing it. I have it. done without being aware of doing harm. With Flora, we thought we had found happiness. “

A repentance that does not move the prosecutor Marine Uetwiller who requires three years of imprisonment, sentence accompanied by continued detention and five years of ban from national territory. “He took advantage of his girlfriend’s vulnerability to take advantage of Madame’s activity, which had been exploited for several months. Flora would have been entrusted by her parents to the good care of the defendant. It was the opposite that happened. pass”, notes the magistrate who can only regret the absence, at the hearing, of the young prostitute.

Me Olfa Chamkhi, in defense, insists on a form of subsistence prostitution: “This is the story of a young couple who have lived together for four years. When he is not working, she takes over.”

“He has no condemnation. He regrets a lot and is worried about his friend.” The court chaired by Christian Legay sentences the young defendant to 18 months in prison to be executed on the spot, five years of inadmissibility and an entry in the file of sex offenders. The maximum penalty for prostitution is ten years’ imprisonment.

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