Jean Manuel Vuillaume

Jean Manuel Vuillaume was a Belgian pornographer who headed Toro Bravo, a child pornography production company based in 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. 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 Caignet and his Toro Bravo associates in 1989 led to the arrest of Nicolas Glencross, a British-born French priest. The 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