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An associate of Jeffrey Epstein was arrested in France on sex charges as he was trying to fly out of the country, according to French media.
Jean-Luc Brunel was arrested at the Roissy airport as he was trying to board a flight to Senegal, a country in West Africa which was once a French colony.
“Modeling agent and former close associate of Jeffrey Epstein, Jean-Luc Brunel, was arrested at Roissy airport as he was leaving for Dakar [a city in Senegal],” reported RT, translated from French. “The [70-year-old] was placed in police custody for rape and sexual assault, particularly of minors.”
The outlet, citing AFP, said Brunel was accused of rape by several former supermodels and that Brunel was suspected of funneling “young girls” to Epstein, an accusation of which stemmed out of the first investigation into Epstein in 2007.
It’s not publicly known whether President Trump was involved in Brunel’s arrest, but his administration has been going after human traffickers worldwide.
The timing is curious because the French had opened the investigation into Brunel in August 2019, around the time Epstein was apparently found dead in his jail cell after he was arrested by US authorities and accused of running a sex trafficking network of young girls.
Brunel was willing to surrender to French authorities in Oct. 2019, but the case apparently went dormant – until now.