David Bridges
With an inflow of holiday makers heading to Paris for the 2024 Olympics, French police are cracking down on prostitution … and we have discovered an anti-pimping brigade is even main the cost.
The Press Workplace for the Police Prefecture tells TMZ … authorities are doing what they’ll to fight unlawful intercourse work within the Metropolis of Lights. We’re instructed checkpoints and different street operations are focused to attempt to put a cease to pimping within the Bois de Vincennes, Bois de Boulogne and Belleville sectors.
A proper brigade — referred to as the BRP — has even fashioned … and we’re instructed they’ll make their presence significantly identified within the space. There may be additionally a gaggle accountable for surveilling night time institutions, resembling cabarets … the place anti-sex work legal guidelines will likely be strengthened.
The Metropolis of Paris and the Public Prosecutor’s Workplace are additionally aiding within the crackdown, as they’ve collaborated to result in prevention and consciousness measures.
Whereas this improve in police presence could also be a aid to residents and vacationers, a number of nonprofit organizations spoke out on behalf of intercourse employees forward of the Olympics … as they imagine the “repression first” mindset has a unfavorable impression on the intercourse employees’ well being and security.
Per France 24, charity teams implored authorities to focus much less on focusing on intercourse employees and, as a substitute, take down the “legal organizations which rob, rape and assault them.”
The orgs additionally defended that intercourse employees aren’t flocking to Paris amid the Olympics, as lodging have grow to be too costly for them to reside there.
This replace comes a 12 months after activists pushed again at anti-prostitution efforts in France, saying new measures risked placing intercourse employees in nice peril.
ICYMI … France formally outlawed brothels in 1946, however made paying somebody for intercourse unlawful in 2016 — an effort to punish the consumer as a substitute of the employee.
But, extra stress means extra hiding … which does nothing for the intercourse employees’ security.
Sounds just like the crackdown could also be a bit counterproductive.
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