National Police and Barcelona City Guard, arrested two Pakistani men with exploiting a citizen at workwho was employed more 15 hours a day without noticing no charge inside secret kitchen from the city where he had to live.
The two arrested are charged with a crime, as reported by the National Police on Tuesday. human trafficking crime for exploiting the victim in this secret kitchen located in a neighborhood basement inconsistent no hygiene-sanitary measuresit also lacks natural light, has a ventilated, moisture-filled and dangerous electrical installation.
With the promise of a job, the detainees offered their compatriots to work 12 hours a day in this secret kitchen with a salary of 33 Euros/day, including room and food. However, the reality is that those arrested in this “basement kitchen” forced their victims to work shifts of more than 15 hours, or even up to 18 hours per daythen prepare food distribute at home or to food outlets, without no fee type.
Also, the victims locked with a key in the basementforced those who could not go out hand over passport and mobile phone and many of them threatened them because our country was in an unstable situation.
Investigation
This investigation police started early last month Decemberwhen a person can issue a warning City Guard he said he was locked in a basement, working in precarious conditions, cooking day and night, and also being forced to live in the same place in unsanitary conditions.
By the end of this month and with your support Catalonian Labor Inspectoratetwo entries were made in both grocery stores that the main detainee ran to the basement where the reported incidents took place.
During the police apparatus, agents main culprit arrested The secret kitchen on charges of human trafficking for the purpose of labor exploitation and five more people, one of whom is in an irregular situation in Spain, have been identified.
Later, as a result of the police investigation, second man arrested at the end of last month Fireplaceaccused of the same crime.