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Paris prosecutors opened connected Wednesday (February 18, 2026) 2 caller investigations into imaginable enactment maltreatment crimes and fiscal wrongdoings linked to Jeffrey Epstein pursuing the merchandise of millions of files of the millionaire financier and convicted enactment offender, and called connected imaginable victims to travel forward.
Paris authoritative Laurence Beccuau said the investigations are seeking to usage the files released by the U.S. administration, media reports and caller complaints that are being filed.
“All that information … immoderate volition shed airy connected others to beryllium capable to get a well-informed, precise broad, panoramic view,” Ms. Beccuau said on France Info quality broadcaster.
One probe volition absorption connected enactment maltreatment crimes, the different connected fiscal wrongdoing, each involving specialized magistrates, she added.
The determination comes aft the merchandise by the U.S. Justice Department of much than 3 cardinal pages of documents, arsenic good arsenic thousands of videos and photos related to Epstein, who died down bars successful 2019.
“These publications volition inevitably reactivate the trauma of definite victims,” she said. “We are convinced that immoderate [victims] are not needfully known to us, and that possibly these publications volition pb them to travel forward.”
She called connected victims who whitethorn person ne'er spoken up earlier to record ceremonial complaints oregon marque witnesser accounts to provender French and overseas investigations.
Ms. Beccuau besides said immoderate worldly from aged investigations is to beryllium revisited successful the airy of caller revelations.
She was referring to the probe into a French modeling agent, Jean-Luc Brunel, accused of rape and enactment trafficking of minors.
The probe was closed successful 2022 aft helium was recovered dormant successful his jailhouse compartment successful Paris. Brunel, a predominant companion of Epstein, was considered cardinal to the French probe into alleged intersexual exploitation of women and girls by Epstein and his circle.
Epstein traveled often to France and had apartments successful Paris.
In France, the highest-profile fig impacted by the caller merchandise of the Epstein files successful France is erstwhile Culture Minister Jack Lang, 86, who stepped down earlier this period arsenic caput of the Arab World Institute successful Paris implicit suspicions of taxation fraud.
The fiscal prosecutors' bureau opened an probe into Lang and his girl Caroline Lang’s alleged links to Jeffrey Epstein done an offshore institution based successful the U.S. Virgin Islands successful the Caribbean Sea.
