{"id":3058,"date":"2026-02-10T01:06:51","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T01:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rendergh.net\/?p=3058"},"modified":"2026-02-10T01:06:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T01:06:51","slug":"senegal-arrests-14-members-of-alleged-paedophile-gang-linked-to-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rendergh.net\/fr\/senegal-arrests-14-members-of-alleged-paedophile-gang-linked-to-france\/","title":{"rendered":"Senegal arrests 14 members of alleged paedophile gang linked to France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"89\" data-end=\"221\">Senegalese police say they have arrested <strong data-start=\"130\" data-end=\"143\">14 people<\/strong> and dismantled a <strong data-start=\"161\" data-end=\"183\">paedophile network<\/strong> operating between Senegal and France.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"223\" data-end=\"431\">According to a police statement, all those arrested are Senegalese nationals and were members of what authorities described as a <strong data-start=\"352\" data-end=\"384\">transnational criminal group<\/strong> that has allegedly been active since <strong data-start=\"422\" data-end=\"430\">2017<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"433\" data-end=\"781\">The suspects are accused of offences including <strong data-start=\"480\" data-end=\"604\">organised paedophilia, pimping, rape of minors under the age of 15, sodomy, and the intentional transmission of HIV\/AIDS<\/strong>. Investigators allege that the group repeatedly forced underage boys to engage in sexual acts with adult men, many of whom were reportedly HIV-positive, and recorded the abuse.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"783\" data-end=\"1010\">Police said <strong data-start=\"795\" data-end=\"819\">four of the suspects<\/strong> were acting under the direction of a <strong data-start=\"857\" data-end=\"876\">French national<\/strong>, who was arrested in France in <strong data-start=\"908\" data-end=\"922\">April 2025<\/strong>. The four are alleged to have carried out instructions in exchange for money transfers.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1012\" data-end=\"1225\">The suspects were brought before a judge on <strong data-start=\"1056\" data-end=\"1066\">Friday<\/strong> following coordinated searches conducted in several neighbourhoods of <strong data-start=\"1137\" data-end=\"1146\">Dakar<\/strong> and in <strong data-start=\"1154\" data-end=\"1165\">Kaolack<\/strong>, a city about <strong data-start=\"1180\" data-end=\"1224\">200 kilometres south-east of the capital<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1227\" data-end=\"1359\">In a statement released on Sunday, police said the raids led to the seizure of items believed to be connected to the alleged crimes.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1361\" data-end=\"1571\">\u201cThe Criminal Investigations Division (DIC) carried out a major operation, dismantling a transnational organised criminal group whose members are based primarily between France and Senegal,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1573\" data-end=\"1726\">The operation was conducted in close cooperation with French authorities, with a delegation of French police officers participating in the investigation.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1728\" data-end=\"1953\">Senegalese police have pledged to continue efforts to track down and dismantle similar criminal networks. They have also provided a <strong data-start=\"1860\" data-end=\"1881\">toll-free hotline<\/strong> for members of the public to report information related to such crimes.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1770685611\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Senegal arrests 14 members of alleged paedophile gang linked to France\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/rendergh.net\/fr\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senegalese police say they have arrested 14 people and dismantled a paedophile network operating between Senegal and France. According to a police statement, all those arrested are Senegalese nationals and were members of what authorities described as a transnational criminal group that has allegedly been active since 2017. The suspects are accused of offences including [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rendergh.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rendergh.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rendergh.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rendergh.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rendergh.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rendergh.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3060,"href":"https:\/\/rendergh.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3058\/revisions\/3060"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rendergh.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rendergh.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rendergh.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rendergh.net\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}