Jean Manuel Vuillaume was a Belgian pornographer who headed [[Toro Bravo]], a child pornography production company based in [[Bogota|Bogota, Colombia]]. In 1995 it was discovered that [[Michel Caignet]] and two of his associates, [[Philippe Desnous]] (using the alias "Bernard Alapetite") and Vuillaume, were producing films in [[Colombia]] distributed through [[Toro Bravo]] showing very young children gagged, tortured, and raped. [[Michel Caignet|Caignet]] claimed the films had been made in [[Colombia]] using boys hired by [[Toro Bravo]], which was headed by Vuillaume. The films were shot in Vuillaume's house in [[Bogota]] and then brought to France and duplicated for sale by mail order.[^1] Vuillaume was arrested at Roissy airport in 1995. He denied all connections with [[Toro Bravo]], but prosecutors claimed 38 pornography videos, sadomasochistic material, and a child-sized toreador costume seen in one of the films were found in his house in [[Bogota]]. A prior investigation into [[Michel Caignet|Caignet]] and his [[Toro Bravo]] associates in 1989 led to the arrest of [[Nicolas Glencross]], a British-born French priest. The [[Philippe Desnous|Desnous]]/Alapetite alias was identified during the broader investigation into the network. The discovery of [[Toro Bravo]]'s operations led to the large-scale ADO 71 raids across France in 1996 and 1997, which resulted in multiple suicides among those arrested or questioned.[^1] ### Footnotes [^1]: Dovey, S. (2023). *Eye of the Chickenhawk*. United States: Thehotstar.