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The Paris prosecutor's office on Saturday, February 14 announced it was setting up a special team of magistrates to analyse files relating to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The new team will work closely with prosecutors from the national financial crimes unit and police with a view to opening investigations into any suspected crimes involving French nationals, the office told AFP.

As part of that initiative, they will be reopening their files on the late Jean-Luc Brunel, a former French modeling agency executive. The aim is "to be able to extract any piece that could be usefully reused in a new investigative framework," said prosecutors.

Brunel, who had links with Epstein, was found dead in his cell in a Paris prison in 2022 after having been charged with raping minors.

Epstein died in prison in 2019 while awaiting trial for trafficking children, in what the US authorities ruled was a suicide.

Several French public figures feature in the latest US Department of Justice release of material from the Epstein files, though being mentioned there does not in itself mean any offence has been committed. Three new specific cases

The prosecutor's office said it had been asked to look into three new specific cases involving a French diplomat, a modelling agent and a musician.

At the request of the French foreign ministry it was looking into the reported appearance of senior diplomat Fabrice Aidan in the cache of Epstein-related documents published by the US authorities. "An investigation is underway to gather various pieces of evidence that could substantiate this report," the prosecutor's office stated.

The prosecutor's office has also received a complaint filed by a Swedish woman against Daniel Siad, a model recruiter with close ties to Epstein. She accused him of "sexual acts that she describes as rape and that may have been committed in France in 1990", it said.

The office has also received a complaint filed against French conductor Frederic Chaslin alleging acts of sexual harassment allegedly committed in 2016, it said.

The latest release of Epstein files has led to French former minister Jack Lang resigning from his position as the head of a top cultural body, the Arab World Institute (IMA).

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A Swedish woman filed a complaint in Paris on Tuesday, February 10, claiming that she recognized a man in the files on convicted US sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who allegedly raped her in the 1990s, legal sources told Agence France-Presse. Ebba Karlson, 56, accuses the man, identified partially as Daniel S. and whom she met in Sweden, of having taken her to Monaco, then France, on the promise of a modelling career.

Her complaint to the Paris prosecutors' office, which AFP has seen, alleges the man raped her in the swimming pool area of a house in Cannes, in the south of France. He then allegedly took her to Gérald Marie, the former European head of the Elite modelling agency. The complaint was first reported by Le Point.

The woman lodged a claim of rape in 2020 against Marie but the case was one of a number closed due to France's statute of limitations. She did not file a complaint against Daniel S., as she did not know his identity. Thirty-six years later, however, the woman said she recognized her attacker in photos published by the US Justice Department in the Epstein case. Her boyfriend at the time, who met Daniel S., also said he recognized him.

The name Daniel S. appears in a number of exchanges with Epstein, who killed himself in a New York prison in 2019 while awaiting sex trafficking charges.

The woman's lawyer, Anne-Claire Lejeune, said, "Ms Karlson would like the Paris prosecutor's office to take up her complaint in order to allow for an investigation into acts of rape and human trafficking." She also wants to determine "if this behavior has been repeated, to shed light on how it operated and, if necessary, identify any potential victims in cases that have not expired under the statute of limitation," she added. The person accused by the woman could not immediately be contacted by AFP.

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