Around 10 'new' victims come forward in France's Epstein investigation
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- French magistrates are seeking to investigate possible offences committed in France or involving French perpetrators who facilitated his crimes.
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French prosecutors investigating Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged trafficking network say around ten previously unidentified suspected victims have recently contacted authorities, widening a probe into possible abuse committed in France or involving French accomplices linked to the late financier.
By: FRANCE 24 A document that was included in the US Department of Justice release of the Jeffrey Epstein files, photographed February 10, 2026, shows a photo of Epstein on a inmate report from the Federal Bureau of Prisons. © Jon Elswick, AP Around ten "new" suspected victims have come forward in a French probe into the network of late US sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a Paris prosecutor said 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.