Spanish police have rescued 21 Nigerian women who were trafficked to work as s*x workers by a notorious prostitution ring. The Daily Mail reports that the victims were lured by the prostitution ring with fake promises of well-paying jobs and then smuggled in to Spain mainland by the traffickers.
The girls and women — some as young as 16 — who were taken to the island of Ibiza to work in the tourist s*x trade and work 14 hours per day were often beaten with brooms and sticks if they did not deliver at least €1,000 to their pimps.
Spanish police have revealed that the rescue of the women, a major operation which was made possible through the collaboration of the Office of Criminal Investigation in Germany and Europol, has led to the arrest of 24 suspects. “The network captured very young victims among the lower classes of the major Nigerian cities, deceiving them with false job offers in Spain.
“Once in our country, they were forced in to prostitution in marathon days, being beaten if they did not earn the money demanded by the gang,” said a police spokesman. Police say they believe Ibiza was a natural choice for the gang to operate from due to the influx of tourists to the island during the summer period…
