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The Death Of Jean Luc Brunel
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Jean-Luc Brunel was found dead in his cell at La Santé prison in Paris during the early hours of February 19, 2022. French authorities said the 75-year-old modeling agent had been found hanged during an overnight inspection and treated his death as a...
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What's up everyone? And welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles. Tonight we're gonna jump right back into the death of Jean Luc Brunel and hopefully add a little more context. Since this guy has been found in his jail cell. There has been a ton of questions obviously about what happened. And since then we have gotten some information, but as usual, we don't have the full picture about what occurred. We don't know exactly what went down in that jail cell. So of course there's going to be a bunch of speculation. And from where I'm sitting here in the peanut gallery, I don't know how anyone can say one way or the other what went down here. There is just not enough there yet as far as information is concerned for me anyway to come to a conclusion one way or the other. Like I explained on the other episode we did on Jean Luc Brunel the other day, it's different with the Epstein situation, considering all of the coincidences that led up to that, the fact that he was in that jail cell with Tartaglioni and the rest of it. Whereas here it just looks like this guy kind of timed it correctly, right? Knew when the guards were doing their rounds and was able to clip himself. And even in the Epstein case, I am more than willing to believe that he killed himself as well if the evidence is provided. For me, that's the most important part, right? Where is the evidence? Where does it lead us? I don't want to run around looking like some kind of yahoo chasing my tail like a lot of these other people do. Who has time for that shit? This is already way too time consuming for me. Nevermind chasing down weird conspiracy theories all over the place. So I'll let other people do that and I'll just chill here and remain agnostic and take the information as it comes, comes and then process it and try and come up with a logical conclusion. So that's why it's so important to continue to add context, to continue to add, even just if it's one little gem, gotta add it to the catalog. Because that could be the key to making everything more clear, right? So tonight that's what we're going to attempt to do. And unfortunately, breaking news. We don't have any breaking news. That's not what I do here. I process the news, I curate the news and we discuss it. But what I try to do is add as much context as possible. That way you folks are armed and prepared when the next article comes out or the next situation pops up. So with that said, why don't we jump into this article from 20 minutes over in France and let's see what author T. Bolt Chevier and Philippe Berry have to say. Epstein case, the suicide of Jean Luc Brunel, end of the French part of the investigation. And you would think, right, look, it sounds bad, oh, that's the end of the investigation. But this is what happens when people die. You don't keep investigating them after they're dead. We learned that with Jeffrey Epstein, didn't we? So I would expect the same thing to be true here. Now, I don't know if that means the investigation is dead completely in France. We'll have to continue to see what happens. But I don't know what else they have to go on over there. Unless of course, they have something on Ghislaine Maxwell or Prince Andrew or something, then obviously they would keep the investigation open. But I'm not too sure what the process is over here as far as, like, do they do the grand jury type deal or, you know, the laws are different everywhere, right? So there's all sorts of different nuances and minute details that come into play. So it'll be interesting to see if this is the end of their investigation in, you know, completely, or if there'll be some, you know, side investigations, perhaps. The death of Jean Luc Brunel undoubtedly marks the end of the investigations in France concerning the Epstein case. Well, there you have it, that's the end of that. So Jean Luc Brunel obviously no longer gonna be investigated in France, and according to this article, maybe not even any more investigations at all. For the investigators who have been working on this file for several months, it is a disappointment. It has to be, you know, think about it. You're one of these cops, one of these honest cops that's out here that actually wants to make a difference, wants to bag and nab perpetrators like Maxwell and Brunel, put them in prison for the rest of their lives, and then they do that, they put him in prison, put him in jail. And while he's there in custody in their charge, he ends up dead. It has to be frustrating as hell. And you heard from a lot of the police officers who were involved in the original arrest of Jeffrey Epstein in Palm Beach. They felt the same way. They were disgusted by all of it, the way it went down. And then obviously, Jeffrey Epstein being able to kill himself while in their custody. The police of the Central Office for the Suppression of Violence against the Person spared no effort and carried out more than half a thousand hearings to try to find other women who were allegedly victims of the former French model agent. Wow. So they were pretty busy over here in France, according to this article. More than half a thousand. So more than 500 hearings to try and find other women who were allegedly victims of. Of Jean Luc Brunel. That's pretty significant. I wonder what they came up with. I mean, I guess we'll never know if this investigation is going to end. I'm guessing they'll just ice it. Probably never really release it for public consumption again. I'm not too sure. Is there like a Freedom of Information act you can file over in France to get documentation, or is it something that when the government says, look, it's a wrap, it's a wrap, so we'll have to see what comes of it. But it is definitely disappointing. And if you think the investigators are disappointed, how do you think some of these survivors feel? And you can't say all of them, right, because some who maybe the statute of limitations has run out on them or. Or who weren't having their voices heard for whatever reason. I'm sure a lot of them are happy that the dude is dead. I know that's kind of crude to say, but it's the truth. If somebody wrongs you in such a way, it's only natural and it's only a human emotion for you to want to see them be hurt or punished in some way as well. When he hanged himself in his cell in the prison of Health last weekend in Paris, this. This close to the American billionaire Jeffrey Epstein was indicted for rape of two women when they were minors and for sexual harassment on a former babysitter. So again, we know what he was in there for. We know the nature of the allegations against him. And in fact, I won't even call them allegations. That's how confident I am that this shit really happened. There's no gray area here, folks, right? When there's this many women who come out, this many people who come out, and the Writing is on the wall. Why even give these people the benefit of the doubt? They don't deserve it. People like him, people like Epstein, they do not deserve it. Accused of having played the touter for Jeffrey Epstein, Brunel was also placed under the intermediate status of assisted witness for the facts of aggravated human trafficking to the detriment of minor victims for the purpose of sexual exploitation. Now let that settle in for a minute. Think about how heinous and disgusting of a excuse of a human being you have to be to engage in something like that. Aggravated human trafficking to the detriment of minor victims for the purpose of sexual exploitation. There is not a hell hot enough for this dude to burn in, in my opinion. But the police suspected Brunel above all of having abused in the 1980s and many young women from modest backgrounds to whom he promised a career in modeling and modeling. And that's for sure. That was the M.O. him and Jeffrey Epstein both, both used that. And I wouldn't be surprised if Epstein took that, that right from Brunel's playbook. Let's not act like Brunel met Epstein and then all of a sudden became this predator and this sick fuck. These guys were a match made in heaven, right? Perfect for each other. Talk about fellow travelers and all. So they got together and it was perfect. Jeffrey Epstein, he had the money, he had the means, he had the people. And Jean Luc Brunel, well, he had access to a bunch of vulnerable girls from war torn countries, developing countries, places where poverty is a everyday reality. And this dude had access to all of that. And he used his power, he used his prestige to, to bring those girls into Jeffrey Epstein's orbit, for all of them, to abuse them. So yeah, there is not a hell hot enough for this sick fuck to burn in, in my opinion. The problem, the facts denounced were often prescribed. We would have preferred him to be judged for all his work. It's obvious, confides bitterly a source close to the file who sees in his gesture a form of confession. Oh, I agree with that. There's no doubt. Look, of course you want, you want to see this through, especially if you're one of the people who are abused. You want to stare this sick bastard down and you want to know that he's going to prison to rot away for the rest of his life. But short of that, at least this motherfucker ain't running around free. At least he's never going to hurt anybody ever again. And obviously anyone paying attention to the situation knows that this is an admission of guilt. An honest man doesn't do this. An honest man doesn't pay $17 million to somebody they don't know. Okay? 2. Two previous suicide attempts since the beginning of the case. Jean Luc Brunel, 75, claimed his innocence, arrested in December 2020 at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris as he was about to fly to Senegal and he was remanded in custody. Of course he said he was innocent. What's he going to say, Nope, I did it all. I think you guys should take me to whatever the worst prison we have in the country is and let me rot there. Of course he's going to say he didn't do anything. In fact, Jean Luc Brunel was so brazen and had such a set on him that he even just tried to blame it all on Epstein. Oh, Epstein did this, Epstein did that, Epstein stole from me, yada, yada, yada. Notice when Epstein was alive, none of that shit was occurring, right? This guy is the ultimate scoundrel, the ultimate coward. And for him to have previous suicide attempts while in custody here, that really is strong evidence to me anyway, that this third time was, you know, the, the successful time that he actually was able to make it work. On February 19th at 1:50am and guards found him hanged in the cell where he was alone. Despite the intervention of the rescuers, he was declared dead at 2:05am According to our information, during the 14 months of his detention, Jean Luc Brunel had made two suicide attempts. And again, I believe that that's a big part of the story here. Right? And what is at least making me lean towards the fact that he probably did kill himself that end, of course, if there was no one else in the cell with him, then it's a little difficult for him to have been clipped right now. If he was found poisoned in there or something, that's completely different. But unless somebody was crawling through an air vent. And again, look, I'm not going to sit here and say it didn't happen. I have no idea. Do I think it's likely? No, not at all. But until we have all of the evidence, like usual, we have stressed on many occasions that he is in a very degraded state of health. An expert psychiatrist had indicated that there was a risk of particular psychological fragility in the event of prolonged detention. His lawyers, Matthias Chich Portich, Marianne Abergail and Christoph Ingrain told 20 Minutes. So you. Yeah, obviously, right. And again, look at the situation with Epstein and then look over here at Brunel, Epstein's lawyers and Everyone around him were saying a whole. It was a whole different story. He wasn't depressed, he wasn't suicidal.
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He was nowhere near being suicidal, none of it. Whereas Jean Luc Brunel and the people around him, including psychiatrists, are over here saying, yeah, dude wasn't right in the head. And he knew the writing was on the wall for this scumbag, and he knew that he was going to spend the rest of his life in prison. And the coward that he is, he couldn't take it. He couldn't take the fact that he'd have to own up to the abuse, and he certainly couldn't take the fact that he'd have to pay the price.
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Detained with other VIPs in the QB4 ward for low quarter number four, Jean Luc Brunel was the subject of a special supervision by the prison staff. In the event that a prisoner has already had suicidal crisis, it may be decided with the medical to set up a special supervision, explains Irwin, Saudi delegate of the FO Prison Union of the Ile de France. At night we'll go more regularly to do a check with the islet to make sure that that person is, well, an average inmate. We will do three visual checks during the night, there will almost double number of controls, but you can't go there every hour either because it's also oppressive for the detainee. You have to find the right balance. Well, this is where I differ. If you're a detainee of high value and somebody who is being held and you're at risk of suicide or someone else hurting you or whatever, you should be under constant supervision. And if that means a camera in your cell, so be it. Sorry, that's just the way it goes. Because if not, we have ourselves a complete shit show, right? Dude, you end up dead. Now you got all kinds of weird crazy theories going out there, the narratives thrown into the, you know, the washing machine and. And it's a whole big problem. So why not just be more Cautious and keep an eye on these types of people. And then once they're convicted, after their trial, then they can, you know, go back to having no camera in their cell, go live in general population, if that's what you want to do. I don't care. The second you're convicted, the second that it's all said and done and the state, the people and the survivors themselves get justice, I don't care what happens to these people. They can go to prison and rot there for all I care. There is no rehabilitation for people like this when it comes to other crimes, just about any other crime. I'm all about being rehabilitated and prisons helping people get rehabilitated. But when you're hurting women and children and you're doing it in a careless manner, the way Jean Luc Brunel and Jeffrey Epstein were. Yeah, sorry, I don't give a flying fuck about you. Presumed Guilty, an investigation entrusted to the third District of Judicial Police, was opened by the Paris prosecutor's office to shed light on the causes of his death. In particular, investigators can rely on the images of the surveillance cameras installed in the corridor to ensure that these checks have been carried out. So obviously they're going to have to go through all of the tape they probably have, who knows? And they'll know if these guards were doing their due diligence or if they were sleeping like the guards were, who supposed to be watching Epstein. And we'll, we'll get more information, obviously, as it comes out, but so far it seems like they were on their game and they were doing their checks, at least. The results of the autopsy, which was carried out on Monday, are not yet known, although there is almost no doubt that Jean Luc Brunel ended his life alone. Again, if there was no one in that cell, it's going to be a hard sell to get me to believe it, right? I, I, you know, how did, how did someone kill him if there's no one else in that cell, and if that there's video evidence that no one was in or out? All right, well, it's a lot more believable than the bullshit they're trying to pump about Epstein. No, and again, I'm not saying that I do believe that this happened. I don't know, let me see the video myself. At this point, that's where I'm. According to his lawyers, the man felt that he was presumed guilty and that the media judicial sentence had already fallen. Nothing justified prison anymore, according to the Judge of Freedoms and detention, Judicial review would have been the simple and strict application of the law in cases like this, they, well, look, dude, you don't want to go to prison, and you're depressed because you're in prison. Here's an idea. Don't molest, don't rape and don't sexually assault people. Then you don't have to worry about going to prison. And as far as being found guilty before bro, decades of evidence, plenty of people coming forward, not this is in gray area. He said, she said, one person coming forward, you know, no evidence to back it up, none of that. At his request, Jean Luc Brunel was to be confronted on March 11 with two of his accusers, a former babysitter and a foreign model. I didn't think my clients would consent to the confrontation because I know that psychologically it was quite complex. We had started working on it, and they wanted to go to the end of the process, pass the course, and be in the same room as him. It's not easy, says their lawyer and Claire Lejeune. So you have two of the people who were accusing him were preparing to confront him in this jail over this, these allegations. And with that date quickly approaching, well, you know, it's a real shame. The death of Jean Luc Brunel means the extinction of public action, at least in the part concerning the rape accusations. The same could apply to the part of the case concerning acts of trafficking in human beings, unless other persons were to be implicated, which for the time being, is not the case. So again, like we asked at the beginning, is this the end of the case in France? And it certainly looks to be that way, folks. For the plaintiffs, it is a feeling of frustration that dominates. Brunel will never have the opportunity to explain himself in court. He was still indicted and remanded in custody. My clients are aware that their words has still been taken into consideration, says Anne Claire Lejeune. Before concluding there was a will that went beyond their own interest, they did so for those who denounced prescribed facts, there was something quite strong in their approach. It's a real shame, and it is. And we've seen it how many times now? As far as the Epstein case goes, we just saw it with the Supreme Court acting like a bunch of morons, not taking this case. We see it here. I mean, you just see it over and over and over again, the lack of justice. And what's so galling about it is all of these people were right there for the federal government to swoop up, for the federal government to punish, and instead they had better things to do, obviously. So people like Epstein and Brunel and Maxwell were able to go on for decades, literally decades, and abuse people. Finally, he gets arrested and it's almost time for justice, and this son of a bitch somehow wiggles off the hook once again. So there you have it, folks, a little more context for the death of Jean Luc Brunel as much as we have anyway. And I figured the best way to do it is go directly to the source in France and, you know, follow the story right along with them. So that's what we'll continue to do here, and we'll continue to add nuggets as they pop up. But one thing is for sure, there is still a lot of questions that need to be answered and there are still, unfortunately, a lot of curve balls coming our way. That's going to do it for tonight's episode. Obviously, some context episodes on their way tomorrow morning. Be right back at it bright and early and we'll see where we're at. If you'd like to contact me, you can do that@bobby capuchirotonmel.com that's B O B B Y C A P U c c I protonmail.com youm can also find me on Twitter Bo Capucci. The link that we discussed can be found in the description box. All right, everybody, I will talk to you all tomorrow and I hope all of you have a great night.