A black man is under arrest after claiming he fathered 55 African babies so as to allow their mothers to move to France on full benefits

The scam is said to have cost the country more than a million pounds in fraudulent social security payments. It involved a 54-year-old "Frenchman" who cannot be named for legal reasons but who has a Senegalese background. He faces up to 10 years in prison and five figure fines after being charged with making false paternity declarations and aiding and abetting the filing of false administrative documents. However, he claims that the children are in fact his, and has agreed to DNA tests. The man’s allegedly extraordinary love life saw him registering the 55 women and their children at his two bedroom flat near the Gare du Nord Eurostar terminal in Paris.