The existence of a now-banned website allowed users to pose as anybody they wanted to be as they picked up potential victims. Anonymity on the site was guaranteed, allowing users to pose as anybody they wanted to be as they picked up potential victims.
Now, the website is central to a case that has horrified France , as it once again highlights the extreme lawlessness that is proliferating online. While she was unconscious and lying in their bedroom in a near-coma, strangers he had been in contact with online arrived to rape the mother-of-three. A 51st man is being judged in absentia. If convicted, most face up to 20 years in jail for aggravated rape.
In France, a relaxed attitude to sex between strangers was viewed as part of a revolutionary spirit, and indeed Enlightenment values, which rejected the strict moral teaching of the Catholic Church and its establishment allies. Such standpoints remain popular in modern France. Cities like Paris are home to expensive libertine clubs, where couples go to swap partners, and this business model now extends to numerous cyberspace pick-up points.
However many of these sites spreading online are linked to unspeakable crimes, ranging from blackmail and paedophilia to β as is claimed in the Avignon case β rape. When Coco was finally shut down, it was used to facilitate illegal activities such as child pornography, sexual exploitation and drug dealing, Eurojust said in a statement.
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