Italian anti-mafia investigators,(DDA) have arrested 13 suspects as part of an operation against an alleged Nigerian mafia gang. The gang is accused of managing a human trafficking and prostitution ring. Police said aspiring members had to take part in brutal “initiation rites” to become part of the gang.
Italian authorities have demolished ten illegal buildings used by migrants in the southern area of Borgo Mezzanone near Foggia. The buildings were used as shops but also featured a nightclub and a brothel.
The new prostitute protection law in Germany was meant to identify victims of human trafficking – most of them migrant women. More than 18 months after the law came into effect, thousands continue to be targeted for exploitation, and the risk for Nigerian women seems to be increasing.
A new report says that children from Vietnam trafficked to the UK are often exploited by human smugglers and forced to work in nail salons and as prostitutes. Europe is ill-equipped to identify and handle the victims.
Italian authorities have arrested four Nigerian citizens accused of human trafficking and forcing underage migrant girls into prostitution, including through the use of esoteric rituals.
The Italian authorities have dismantled a Nigerian human trafficking ring that operated between Nigeria, Libya and Italy, forcing women and children to sell their bodies by using voodoo rituals as a form of coercion.
Police said a "family-related and organized network" from Romania was behind the forced prostitution of children. Berlin's Tiergarten Park has become a center for men seeking sex with young boys.
The Italian authorities have discovered an organization of Nigerian origins involved in the trafficking of minors for prostitution that made use of contacts in Libya and Italy to arrange the trips.
Sex trafficking is big business. The UN migration agency estimates that about 80 percent of Nigerian women who arrive in Italy are destined for sexual exploitation. Most are brought to Europe by Nigerian crime fraternities which are always looking for new ways of making money.
Nigerians make up the fourth largest group of asylum seekers in the European Union, tens of thousands risk the perilous journey across the Mediterranean every year. What are the main reasons for leaving their country?
The Palermo police have discovered a criminal network exploiting unaccompanied migrant minors taken from reception facilities and used in pizzerias and fields for very low wages.
Young migrant girls are being forced into prostitution in the Ligurian border city of Ventimiglia to pay for their food and accomodation or to be smuggled into France, according to a new report by Save the Children (StC) released ahead of the World Day against Human Trafficking on July 30. The girls are mostly from the Horn of Africa or sub-Saharan African countries and they have to pay smugglers between 50 and 150 euros to take them by car across the border, Save the Children says.