Overview

• The tribunal correctionnel de Toulouse found 13 defendants guilty in the proxenet case, handing 2–6 year prison terms to 12 collaborators, while one of the 14 accused was acquitted.
• Olivier Habchi Hamadouche, known as “Mowgli,” directed the network from his Béziers prison cell and was already serving 25 years for kidnapping and sequestration leading to death.
• Investigators identified at least ten victims aged 14–16 under child welfare oversight, four of whom became civil parties, with prosecutors describing some as polytraumatized after seeing up to 20–30 clients a day.
• The group organized trips to Paris, Switzerland and Belgium to prostitute the adolescents, seeking jurisdictions they considered more permissive.
• Judges fined the ringleader €50,000 and ordered damages for victims, with investigators estimating at least €100,000 in proceeds between July 2023 and January 2024, and eight suspected minors will be tried separately after gendarmes dismantled the ring.