“If you give me your virginity…”

The testimony is chilling. Whereas Jacques Bouthierone of the biggest fortunes in France, was indicted on May 21 for “trafficking in human beings against minors“, the complainant Aïcha told the investigators of the atrocities that he would have subjected her to, revealed The Parisian. It was in mid-March 2022 that the affair broke out. The 22-year-old woman goes to a Paris police station to file a complaint. She claims to be businessman captivewho, according to her testimony, had been raping her since 2016 or 2017, when she was at the time still minor.

“If you give me your virginity, I will give you 4000 euros”

the old CEO of Assu 2000, aged 75, who had to resign from his post, would have met the young woman through her cousin (a version of the facts which she refutes). According to Aïcha, her cousin offered her prostitution and took her to Jacques Bouthier’s home.

“There was already a girl at home. She explained to me that she has had sex with Jacques Bouthier since she was 17, but now that she is 23, she’s too old and that I was her replacement“said the complainant, who was only 16 years old at the time of the events.

For three months, she allegedly had paid sex with the CEO of Assu 2000without vaginal penetration… until he made another proposal to her: “He told me : ‘If you give me your virginity, I’ll give you 4000 euros and I’ll buy you a phone‘”. The young woman reportedly gave in and suffered a “rough report“, according The Parisian.

Jacques Bouthier would have asked for a girl aged 8 to 14

Heard by the investigators, Jacques Bouthier, he confirmed the facts, but assured that he thought at the time that the young woman was of age. He did not fail to describe her as “a big naughty“. However, in a conversation intercepted by the investigators, Jacques Bouthier would have dropped to his interlocutor: “I believe she was underage“.

According to Aïcha, the businessman would have refused that she continue high schoolin order to be available at all times and would have driven her many times in swingers clubs where he would have pushed her to have relations with men. Then, in December 2020, the complainant was kicked out of Jacques Bouthier’s home. “He said to me: If you want an apartment, you have to find me a little girl (…) He said 8-11 years old. Up to 14 years old, no more“she assured.

Aïcha then makes him believe that she has found a 13-year-old Moroccan woman, ready to move in with him. It is actually a 14-year-old Romanian girl, who part of the complainant’s plan to expose Jacques Bouthier’s behavior. “The idea was that she and Bouthier find themselves naked and I had to take Bouthier’s clothes, lock them in the apartment and call the police.“, she explained.

Jacques Bouthier, accused of sexual assault

A video is then shot at that time. The 75-year-old businessman finds himself in a bed with the 14-year-old girl, asks her age, offers her 200 euros and shamelessly throws out: “And have you ever been with a boy? (…) Well we have to start, huh“.

Investigators are able to confirm that the complainant was well hosted by Jacques Bouthier. If she was not physically held prisoner, according to the first conclusions of the investigation, the businessman would have had a strong hold about the young woman, described as “very brittle“, “without resources” neither “outside help“.

Jacques Bouthier: a grip on “vulnerable beings”?

According to Marine Brousse, president of the association La voix de l’enfant, which is a civil party in the case, it is precisely for these characteristics that Jacques Bouthier would have chosen this young woman for exert one’s influence. “What is absolutely odious on the part of such individuals is precisely to attack these vulnerable beings“, she lamented at the microphone of BFM TV. Seven other women were allegedly raped by Jacques Bouthier, then replaced in turn by a younger woman.

A judicial information to was opened on May 21, on the grounds of “trafficking in human beings against a minor”, “rape of a minor over the age of 15”, “use of prostitution by a minor” and “sexual assault on a minor under the age of 15” for the 14 year old girl.

Five other people charged

Five other people have been charged, including the wife of Jacques Bouthier, suspected of having endorsed the actions of her husband. Aïcha’s cousin, suspected of having recruited her for the businessman, is also among those indicted.

As for the other three indicted, it would be of henchmen of the CEO, accused of “non-denunciation of sexual assault” and “participation in an association of criminals in an organized gang with a view to committing kidnapping and forcible confinement”, according to RTL.

Jacques Bouthier cries out for blackmail: who is the businessman?

The founder of Assu 2000 was ranked 487th in the magazine’s ranking Challenges of the largest fortunes in France, with a assets estimated at 160 million euros. Founded in 1975, when the CEO was 28 years old, the company renamed Vilavi in ​​January, is presented as the “first expert broker in insurance and credit dedicated to individuals in France“. The businessman has denounced a “trap” which would aim to blackmail him.