The probe, opened by French magistrates earlier this year, points to practices described by investigators as bearing similarities to the methods seen in the late US convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s case, according to judicial sources. French authorities began investigating the late Egyptian businessman and his brother Salah last year amid allegations of a vast system of sex trafficking and abuse on French soil. Read moreSome 60 more women accuse Mohamed Al-Fayed, ex-owner of Harrod’s and the Paris Ritz, of sex abuse “Every time I met Mohamed Al-Fayed, he tried to assault me,” his former personal assistant Kristina Svensson told French police of her two years working at the Ritz. Her testimony is all too familiar. The alleged crimes of Mohamed Al-Fayed, who died in 2023 aged 94, first came to light in a BBC investigation in September 2024. In it, several young women who worked at his upmarket London department store Harrods accused him of rape and sexual assault. British police said that 154 victims have so far come forward to say the former …