Prostitution of minors in France has risen by up 43 percent over the last four years, according to official figures published Friday. The government insists it remains committed to cracking down on exploitation networks, a decade after a landmark law made paying for sexual services a crime.

  • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    3 hours ago

    They just track billionaires’ jet transponders. Apparently they’ve spent a lot of time in France after the island was shut down.

    Seriously though, you’re pretty much correct. It’s akin to the “cancer rates are rising dramatically” headlines, when the only thing that changed is our early detection methods got better. So now it is being caught more, and the number of known cases is rising.