The Paris Assize Court on Friday sentenced the 29-year-old Indian for leading an online group forcing teenage girls to perform sexual acts and mutilation.
The Paris Assize Court sentenced Rohan Rane, a 29-year-old Indian, to 20 years of criminal imprisonment for leading “CVLT”, a Discord group forcing teenage girls to perform sexual acts and mutilation.
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The case began in November 2020 after a report from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in the United States.
French justice has delivered its verdict in a case of sexual violence and torture of minors on Discord.
On Friday, the Paris Assize Court sentenced Rohan Rane, a 29-year-old Indian man, to 20 years of criminal imprisonment for leading “CVLT”, an online group which forced teenage girls to perform sexual acts and mutilation. The public prosecutor's office had requested 30 years of criminal imprisonment.
After five days of hearing behind closed doors, the accused was found guilty of several crimes, including extortion by an organized gang aggravated by acts of torture and barbarity, particularly against minors. A former student in Antibes who became a sports coach, he was considered by investigators to be the main order giver.
The victims, mainly Americans, were approached on forums. After obtaining naked photos, the members of the group threatened to distribute them to their loved ones or to have the police intervene in their homes with false alarms. Around twenty victims were identified, others could not be identified. Six young women, now aged 18 to 21, have become civil parties.
According to the investigation, these teenagers, often aged under 15 at the time of the events, were forced to perform sexual acts and mutilations, sometimes with Nazi symbols engraved on their skin. The group's leaders, called "warlords", nicknamed them "housewives". Some were driven to suicidal behavior. Its members shared racist, anti-Semitic and anti-feminist ideas.
The case began in November 2020 after a report from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, in the United States, concerning images of a 12-year-old child being encouraged to scarify herself. In a note sent by the American justice system and attributed to Rane, “CVLT” is presented as “a dark and sadistic cult”. Its author claims this objective: “My ultimate goal is to create an inexhaustible supply of masochistic people to satisfy my sadism. »
The closed session, requested by the American authorities due to threats against victims, witnesses and prosecutors, was ordered despite opposition from the civil parties. Their lawyer, Hippolyte Marquetty, wanted a trial with educational implications. Arrested in France at the start of 2021, Rohan Rane will have to leave the country after his sentence. The United States is requesting his extradition to also try him.
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Expulsion from French territory after his sentence
Very likely · Within months
Extradition request by the United States
Likely · Within months
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Rohan Rane, a 29-year-old Indian, was sentenced Friday to 20 years of criminal imprisonment by the Paris Assize Court for leading a masculinist group on Discord where young girls were forced into sexual acts, mutilation and torture. The prosecution had requested thirty years. Around twenty victims were identified, including minors under 15 years old. The group, active during the pandemic, mixed nihilism, racism, anti-Semitism and Nazi aesthetics. Rane will have to leave France after his sentence, with the United States demanding him for a new trial.
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