THE FRENCH PIPELINE: HOW JEAN-LUC BRUNEL BUILT A SYSTEM THAT FED EPSTEIN FOR DECADES
The Recruitment Pipeline — How Girls Were Targeted, Scouted, and Funneled
Jean-Luc Brunel didn’t “find” victims. He hunted them.
French investigative files and survivor testimony describe the same pattern:
* He targeted girls who were extremely young — 12, 13, 14, 15.
* He went after girls who were isolated, often from small towns or unstable families.
* He used scouts in Eastern Europe, France, Belgium, Brazil, and the Caribbean.
* He promised modeling careers, visas, apartments, and “international opportunities.”
* He used older models to recruit younger ones, telling them it was “how the…
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