agents Junior Women’s Team (Emume) Alicante and Vizcaya Civil Guards intercept a human trafficking network in the Basque Country. sexual abuse After a denunciation of a protected witness in the state of Alicante. Inside operation “Alipar”, Civil Guard Central Operations Unit (UCO) Human Trafficking Branch Directorate. seven people were arrested in the cities of Bilbao, Barakaldo and Fruiz of Biscayan and 13 women free He said they were victims of a prostitution network and lived in inhumane conditions in a house in the Bilbao district of Zorrotza. The network was run by a woman and has been in operation since at least the beginning of 2017; this was a time when large numbers of women would take control to exploit them sexually.
According to the Civil Guard, a criminal organization Women recruited in South American countriesThey are taking advantage of the situation of vulnerability, need and poverty in their home countries, especially Paraguay and Colombia. They offered them promising living and working conditions, but then lived in inhuman and unsanitary conditions.
According to statements compiled by Europa Press from tHector SuarezThe head of the investigation department of the Organic Unit of the Vizcaya Command Judicial Police, the victims suffered “compressed into a ground floor the basement and a cramped attic that they can only get into by crouching.” The officer also explained that “the beds in the bunk beds did not exceed 70 cm, they lived among the remains of food and filth, and they all shared a common living space,” the bathroom and the victims. being forced to use cocaine if customers require.
Trip
They stopped several times in different European countries to transport the victims, until they reached their final destination, Bilbao. Once there, they were informed of their real employment situation and forced into prostitution. Women daily controlled Being able to leave the place of abuse for only one hour a day, even by means of closed-circuit television, by the members of the organization.
women were forced accepting customers 24 hours a day, seven days a week and also They held themed parties where victims have to accept customer requests.
To the victims released by the Civil Guard, NGO Fiet Gratia to meet the different needs that may require
each of these.
The leadership of the organization was assumed by a woman, as well as five women and a man carrying out different tasks.
In the entries and searches made in the districts Barakaldo, Bilbao and Fruiz More than 35,000 euros in cash, cocaine
ready for distribution and consumption, cannabis, numerous mobile phones, computers, POS devices, monitors, CCTV recorders, large
quantity of sildenafil and amoxicillin pills and plenty of interesting documents for investigation. It also carried out
Blocking multiple bank accounts, real estate and vehicles.
Criminal complaint filed against detainees human trafficking, prostitution and sexual exploitationis against public health, money laundering, membership in a criminal organization and the rights of foreign nationals. The investigation was led by the Education Court No. 6 of Bilbao.
Source: Informacion
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