Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau went on France Inter radio Thursday, 10 September, and counted. Twenty-six Epstein victims identified in France. Thirteen of them "had never appeared in any file." She still has eight to question, some living abroad. And "other names of potential recruiters" have surfaced — she gave no number.
Beccuau opened two investigations in February 2026, weeks after the Justice Department released its Epstein files in January. She is investigating human trafficking. She is chasing leads in New York, Paris, Saint-Tropez and Cannes, and French nationals may have abused some of the women abroad. Beccuau called it "a labyrinthine network — dozens and dozens of threads."
One prosecutor, seven months, working from the documents Washington let out. Nobody in Washington is helping her.
Poland, Norway and Latvia asked the Justice Department for legal assistance on Epstein, the Washington Post reported Wednesday, 9 September. None got an answer. Norway's economic-crime police said the department "has not at this time approved the request." Latvia's police said they had sent "several requests" and "no responses have yet been received." The Telegraph reported last month that the department would not hand over unredacted files for Britain's Peter Mandelson probe either.
Blanche keeps the files sealed at home and the mail unanswered abroad, and Beccuau counts on without him. Below: the witness Paris lost in July, the billionaire Congress votes on Tuesday, and what happened to three survivors in Dallas on Friday.
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