A French photographer who uploaded pornographic footage of a young Maltese man had filmed five other local models for his pay-per-view porn website last year.

Renaud Ribas, who lived in Gżira but has since returned to France, was last month handed a two-year suspended sentence for putting on the internet a video of a young Maltese man engaged in a sexual act. In Malta, distributing, circulating or publishing pornographic material is prohibited by Article 208 of the Criminal Code.

Mr Ribas said he had also met nearly two dozen aspiring Maltese models who posed nude during the past 11 months.

The images were not taken surreptitiously and Mr Ribas insisted the models signed a contract stipulating that the images would appear on a website.

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