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Indian jailed in France for leading sadist Nazi cult that tortured girls

France 249 October 2026, 19:45 UTCFrance

A Paris court on Friday jailed a young Indian man to 20 years jail for leading a masculinist group that forced young girls, many of them minors, to perform sexual acts and in some cases tortured them.

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