Contact Admin. You have a good point here! I totally agree with what you have said!! Thanks for sharing your views This article draws on interviews with prostitution survivors, the police and prosecutors to reveal how Romanian trafficking gangs are extending their operations across Spain. Spanish police raiding a brothel where young Romanian women are expolited. Early one morning in August , an 18 year old girl stepped onto a bus that would take her away from her hometown of Slobozia in south-eastern Romania.
Marina carried nothing more than a small backpack containing a bundle of clothes and a few family mementoes; a photo of her two little sisters and a silver necklace that her mother had given her. Although many tears were shed the night before leaving, she hoped to build a better life. She was travelling to Spain to work on a farm.
It wasn't her dream job she had always wanted to work in an office , but the promise of a better future kept a smile on her face for the entire journey. The minibus, which also carried another 15 young women from Slobozia, travelled 4, km and passed through five countries; Romania, Hungary, Austria, Germany and France.
The journey took three and a half days and its final destination was a town in the province of Valencia. On arrival they were met by two Romanian men of intimidating appearance; they were muscle-bound and their arms and necks were covered in tattoos.
They took the girls to a large building where they were joined by another five or six Latin American women. There were 25 individual rooms on the top floor and Marina was given room That first night she slept in the room where, for the following two years, she would go through hell. The following morning the two men brought all the girls together in a canteen on the ground floor.
