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"I have been waiting for your call for 30 years," she said, according to Le Monde.

"You got into my head, it's destroyed me, I became a whole other person I don't recognise anymore," Le Monde newspaper reported one victim as saying.

According to Le Monde newspaper, the devices were nicknamed "suppositories" by prison inmates because of their ease of concealment.

Similar mini-phones are manufactured in large numbers in China, according to Le Monde.

"All the hunters were found guilty, which is the most important thing for us," the association's president, Sabine Matraire, was quoted as saying in Le Monde.