Incest and family violence are the most common problems. Isolated paedophiles are routinely questioned. Statistics show that they are often teachers or trainers, priests or clergy, operating on their own. Quite another thing is the existence of networks run by pimps. Money associated with child rape.
Children coming through some clandestine immigration channel pose a real problem.
Such children, with no proof of identity, are ideal victims for traffickers in this sordid world. After the initial impact in the media following these four operations in 1996 and 1997, the tendency has been to deny all existence of a structured network in France. In fact, some doctors and medical workers who have passed on information about children in danger have been accused of abuse of office. We only have amateurs here'. Five months later, a person well known in France and Belgium for his connections in the world of prostitution and the traffic of stolen cars was captured in Charleville-Mezieres following an international warrant of arrest.