Found dead in Paris the man who recruited girls in Barcelona for Jeffrey Epstein

BarcelonaDaniel Siad, suspected captor of victims for the sexual exploitation network of the American pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, was found dead this Monday on the outskirts of Paris, where he resided. According to the newspaper The Parisian,the most likely cause of death is cardiac arrest.

Siad, 69, of Franco-Algerian origin, worked as a model agent. His name appears more than 2,000 times in Epstein case documents, declassified this year by the US Department of Justice, placing him as one of the main facilitators of Epstein's sex network in Europe. Said was responsible for recruiting young women – and, in some cases, minors – for the American tycoon, as evidenced by numerous conversations recovered from Skype and WhatsApp.

Paris was one of the main nerve centers of the scheme. Epstein owned a luxurious apartment at 22 Avenue Foch in the French capital, from where, according to investigators, he coordinated part of his network. Following this, the French Public Prosecutor's Office opened investigations – in which Siad was listed as a suspect – into the possible ramifications of the case in the country, both regarding possible sexual crimes and possible financial offenses.

Before settling in Paris, Siad established himself in Barcelona in April 2017. According to declassified documents, the modeling agent turned the Catalan capital into one of the plot's sexual recruitment hubs. The man acted as a facilitator of girls – preferably under 25 years old – for the American billionaire, to whom he sent photos and videos of the victims. "I have different models camped out in my 35 sqm apartment," Siad writes to Epstein himself in 2017, and then announces that he will send him photos. He did this for more than two years, until Epstein's arrest in July 2019.

Another of those involved in the Epstein case, Jean-Luc Brunel, Siad identified himself to investigators as an "observer" and "recruiter of girls and women for Epstein". Siad always denied any involvement in the case and publicly defined himself as a "family man".