Spanish and Polish police arrested 17 suspected sex traffickers and rescued 13 women forced into prostitution. (Photo: Europol, License) Police in both countries have carried out a series of raids against the sex trafficking ring, rescuing women brought to Europe under false pretenses. , kidnapped and forced into prostitution, a consumer calls them.
The victims, Europol said, were tricked by traffickers into believing they would be taken to Europe as abnormal migrants and given painting visas on arrival in exchange for 15,000 euros ($16,387). However, once in Europe, they were stripped of their freedoms and said they had to prostitute themselves in order to reimburse the prices of smuggling them to the continent.
These women, according to the Spanish authorities, were subjected to a regime of slavery in which they were under constant surveillance and made available to consumers 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Under no circumstances may they refuse to provide sexual facilities when requested and upon completion. , they were robbed of most of their salaries as “payment” for their expenses.
To keep them in perpetual servitude, traffickers charged them a monthly payment that they also had to pay through sexual abuse. Their constant imprisonment and lack of knowledge of the local language meant that any chance of escape was virtually impossible.
When asked to escort clients, members of the trafficking organization followed them at all times and kept them under video surveillance.
Europol guided the operation by facilitating analysis between national police facilities and deploying trained personnel to collect forensic evidence at the scene of the raids, the criminal intelligence firm said.
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