Aged between 25 and 60, the defendants are accused of having had sexual relations, some of which were paid for, with a 13-year-old girl whom they met via the controversial site coco.gg.
A year ago, worried about not having any news from their 13-year-old daughter, the parents of a schoolgirl went to the Bouchain gendarmerie in the North. The teenager was finally found thanks to her phone. However, she was in an agricultural shed in Pas-de-Calais. The investigation then made it possible to discover that the young woman was maintaining paid relationships with different adult men. She used the Snapchat application, but also the coco.gg site.
Also known by its old name coco.fr, but also called Coco Chat or Cocoland, this free chat without registration is regularly associated with legal cases. It is also through this same dating site that the two minors, who were indicted in the case of Philippe’s death in Grande-Synthe, claim to have arranged to meet their victim. They then pretended to be a minor. Questioned on this site by AFP, including The Parisian echoes this, ACPE’s legal manager, Sophie Antoine, does not hesitate to describe Coco.gg as a “hunting ground for predators”.
Employees, workers, soldiers, bakers… In total, 12 men, aged 25 to 60, will be tried in Valenciennes on Thursday April 25. Five of them will be prosecuted for “use of prostitution of a minor”, six others for “sexual offenses against a minor”. The twelfth individual is only accused of “solicitation” and “possession of pornographic images of a minor”. Note that the 11 other defendants are also suspected of this last charge.