Frenchman Pierre R., a restaurateur from Beauvais (Oise), perpetrated sexual crimes against youth, recruiting people to supply young victims, including the homeless, for a Franco-Senegalese pedophile ring that allegedly operated for 10 years.
“Sex schools” to train “good bottoms” was reportedly his modus operandi.
These are the crimes for which Senegalese police have arrested 14 people, according to SenePlus, citing an investigative report by Le Parisien’s Christel Brigaudeau.
Pierre R. went so far as to even request recruiters “deliberately inoculate the underage boys caught in his web with the AIDS virus, so that they would no longer have an ‘exit.'”
As Brigaudeau explained: “The deliberate transmission of a chronic disease, which is fatal in the absence of treatment, seemed to him an additional guarantee of submission, in a country where homosexuality is already taboo and repressed by law.”
The ring goes back a decade, with early conversations of Pierre R. revealing his intention “to create ‘sex schools’ in discreet apartments, to build a pool of victims for the sexual exploitation of children, all boys, and as young as possible.” Recruiters in Senegal were specifically asked to find children aged three to 15 for these schools. Pierre R. asked one source to rent a room and sent him €450 to cover expenses.
In return, the restaurateur demanded “filmed evidence of multiple sexual abuses on a teenager around 15 years old,” according to Le Parisien. However, he was not satisfied with the footage received, presumably because there were no “promised videos showing abuse on younger victims.”
Pierre R. is suspected of having created, “among acquaintances close to the homosexual prostitution scene in Senegal, a network of ‘trainers’, tasked with attracting very young boys in great social vulnerability, to train them in sex and make them, in his words, intercepted during the investigation, “good passives” for clients.
Although the crimes were apparently carried out in Senegal, at the direction of Pierre R, youth were also recruited in tourist hot spots, such as Marrakesh. One contact in Senegal and Morocco, reportedly received “some €2,000 from the Frenchman, in exchange for the promise to recruit four children, first in Dakar and then in Marrakech, and to inoculate them with HIV,” according to Le Parisien.
Between 2016 and 2024, Pierre R. “maintained financial support for several contacts and sent more than €50,000 to various acquaintances in Senegal over the course of several months,” the paper notes. He also made six trips to the country, alone or with acquaintances, notably to the seaside town of Saly, south of Dakar.
In one shocking note, investigators have reportedly found that students at Koranic schools, known as “talibés,” were specifically targeted. These students are children entrusted by their parents to institutions that are meant to provide them with religious and social education.
“In recent years, a drift in this educational mission has been repeatedly denounced by humanitarian organizations, with many young talibés ending up on the streets of Dakar, forced to beg, often abused by all-powerful ‘masters’. And potential prey for all kinds of trafficking,” wrote Brigaudeau.
On the networks where he exchanged messages with Senegalese, but also Moroccan, interlocutors, with the aim of organizing “sex parties” for his own benefit or that of potential “clients”, “Pierre R. readily called himself ‘papa’, ‘boss’ or, according to one of his pseudonyms, ‘Peter Babtou’, meaning Peter the white man,” reveals Le Parisien.
The investigation into the number of victims and the range of crimes committed is ongoing. The French juvenile office, the central office against human trafficking (OCRTEH), and the Oise police are overseeing the case.
