Paris (France) (AFP) – Franck Ribéry who denies "false information", Yaël Braun-Pivet who wants "light" on possible "ramifications" and the complaint in Paris of a Swedish woman for rape: the flood of files from the Epstein file continues to cause a stir in France.

Published on: 02/10/2026 - 5:01 p.m. Modified on: 02/10/2026 - 5:20 p.m.

. “Kaiser” Franck, mentioned, will file a complaint

Franck Ribéry, ex-football star who notably made the heyday of Bayern Munich and the French team, is cited in an anonymized and partially redacted document dated 2019 in the files of American sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein published by the American Department of Justice.

The lawyer of the former football star, Carlo Alberto Brusa, denounces in a press release "false information", published on social networks, "making people believe" that his client "would be involved in the Epstein affair" and announces that he will file a complaint.

In this 38-page document, presented as a letter sent to the American justice system which cites numerous names, it is notably written that Ribéry's membership "in the world of prostitution no longer needs to be proven." The attacker was heard in 2010 in Paris as a witness in a case of aggravated pimping.

According to this part of the Epstein files, the one who ended his playing career in 2022 would have “tried to hit” a woman while she was “in her garden” and whose address he would have “obtained”.

A “totally +eccentric+ letter, the result of a settling of scores between people to whom he is a total stranger,” his lawyer responds.

. Complaint from a Swedish woman in Paris

A 56-year-old Swedish woman filed a complaint on Tuesday in Paris, claiming to have recognized, in a photo in the Epstein files, a man she accuses of rape in the 1990s, AFP learned from a source close to the case, confirming information from Le Point.

Ebba Karlsson accuses Daniel S., met in Sweden, of having brought her to Monaco then to France, promising her a career as a model, according to this complaint of which AFP was aware and filed with the Paris prosecutor's office.

She accuses him of having then raped her in the swimming pool area of ​​a house in Cannes, before taking her to Gérald Marie, one of the former directors of the “Elite” modeling agency.

She filed a complaint for rape in 2020 against Gérald Marie, a procedure closed for prescription. But she had not filed a complaint against Daniel S., because she did not know his identity.

The name of Daniel S. appears in numerous exchanges with Jeffrey Epstein published by the Ministry of Justice, consulted by AFP.

"Madame Karlsson wants the Paris public prosecutor's office to take up (her) complaint in order to allow an investigation into acts of rape", or even to "identify possible victims of non-prescribed acts", her lawyer, Anne-Claire Lejeune, told AFP. The suspect could not immediately be reached by AFP.

. Yaël Braun-Pivet wants justice to be “seized”

The President of the National Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet said she was opposed on Tuesday to the creation of a parliamentary commission of inquiry into the French aspect of the Epstein affair: this would enter "in competition with justice" which "must be seized".

“It is necessary that justice can be seized” to “shed the light” if there are “French ramifications” in the Epstein affair, insisted the political leader on Europe1.

The first name to appear numerous times in France (673 mentions) in the recent delivery of new files linked to Epstein, Jack Lang, former Minister of Culture of François Mitterrand, resigned on Sunday from the presidency of the Institute of the Arab World after the opening of an investigation by the national financial prosecutor's office for his links of financial interest with the American sex criminal.

“It’s quite terrifying. While recognizing the quality of Jack Lang’s commitment and work as minister, I no longer want to see politicians who benefit from the largesse of private people,” said Yaël Braun-Pivet indignantly.

If the simple mention of a person's name in the Epstein file does not imply any reprehensible act a priori on their part, many personalities are experiencing the shock wave of these revelations.

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