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A Paris prosecutor said Sunday that about 10 new suspected victims have emerged in France’s investigation into the network of late U.S. sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Laure Beccuau, the Paris public prosecutor, told RTL broadcaster that some 20 suspected victims had come forward after she urged potential victims in February to speak up.

While some were already known to investigators, Beccuau said “new victims come forward, ones we didn’t know at all.”

“There are around 10 of them,” she added, noting “The choice we’ve made for the time being is to listen to these victims.”

“A certain number of them are abroad, so the investigators have tried to set up meetings to suit when they are able to come to Paris,” the prosecutor said.

France opened a human trafficking investigation following the release of files from the U.S. Justice Department’s investigation into Epstein.

French magistrates are seeking to investigate possible offenses committed in France or involving French perpetrators who facilitated Epstein’s crimes.

“We have also once again pulled out Mr Epstein’s computers, his telephone records, his address books,” Beccuau said, adding that her team would be “making requests for international assistance.”

Epstein died in U.S. prison in August 2019 while facing charges of trafficking underage girls for sex. The next month, French investigators searched Epstein’s luxury apartment in Paris.

Suspected victims already known to investigators included women who had spoken during probes into former European model agency boss Gerald Marie and late model agent Jean-Luc Brunel, the AFP news agency reported.

Fifteen women in March urged France to investigate Marie for possible links to Epstein.

French authorities arrested Brunel in 2020 after allegations that he sexually abused minors and procured victims for Epstein. He was found dead in prison in 2022.

Two former models have told AFP that a modeling scout named Daniel Siad groomed them with the aim of delivering them to Epstein in one case in the 2000s, and Marie in the other case in the 1990s.

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“summary”: “Paris prosecutor says about 10 new suspected victims emerge in French probe into Jeffrey Epstein network.”
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