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Sex Trafficking in Bonn (2010)

A sex trafficking case from 2010 in Bonn, Germany.

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What happened

A 30 years old woman. The „Madame“ how the pimp was called had her victim in a brothel in Bonn. She was caught in Koblenz and was leading towards apartments in Berlin, Oberhausen, Duisburg, Essen and Hamburg. With this case another „Madame“ pimp in Hamburg was caught. The trafficker was caught and charged by the department of public prosecution for contravention of the Immigration Law, illegal transportation of foreigners, money laundering, support of human trafficking and human trafficking. The trafficker was into a kind of Vodoo-magic from her hometown. She made her victim swear to a „Ju-Ju“ priest unconditional obedience to her. In case she would not obey or talk about it she should be dead. The a so called Voodoopac, contains finger nails, hair, garments, a photo of the person and the name of the person. The vivtim believes that the owner of this pack has power over them. On Thursday the 14.10.10 she was finally convicted and placed on probation. She was giving an all out plea of guilty and namend another perosn who was invovled as well. Because of her cooperation they saved a lot of time in hearing of evidence and was able to be finished during one day. Informations of the State Office of Criminal Investigation show that there was already a case of Voodoo in 2009 in the State of NRW, Germany. In December 2009 another „Madame“ pimp in Hamburg was caught as well and convicted at the court of justice. The court of justice already convicted her and placed her on a two years suspended sentence. The trafficker got a rightless VISA for her victim and her victim promised her 50.000€ for it. To earn the money for her pimp she worked in brothels.

Response and intervention

On Thursday the 14.10.10 the pimp was finally convicted and placed on probation. She was giving an all out plea of guilty and namend another peroson who was invovled as well. Because of her cooperation they saved a lot of time in hearing of evidence and was able to be finished during one day. Informations of the State Office of Criminal Investigation show that there was already a case of Voodoo in 2009 in the State of NRW, Germany. In December 2009 another „Madame“ pimp in Hamburg was caught as well and convicted at the court of justice. The court of justice already convicted her and placed her on a two years suspended sentence. In winter in 2009 (other informations said February 2010) the police found a 20 years old nigerian woman with a false passport. Another report was saying the victim was still working as a prostitude until the 11th of February 2010 and that would have been the day when the police found the young woman with the false passport. The police continued to investigate because of this suspision and. After an interrogation the 20 year old woman named her pimp. They found enough evidence to bring her into custody and later on to cause a criminal conviction at the court of justice. They also found an entire net work behind it. I could not find any information about that

Forced Labor2009

Borken, Germany, 2009

Germany DE

Following more than a year-long investigation, the German Federal Police have busted an international ring involved in smuggling Sri Lankan Tamil people into European countries, with the connivance of certain French and British authorities. Police, during simultaneous raids on 37 places from early morning last Wednesday in Germany and elsewhere abroad, arrested 16 suspected German, French and British nationals of Sri Lankan origin, diplomatic sources said. According to these sources, a special team from the German Federal Police has been investigating the activity of a German-based Sri Lankan Tamils smuggling ring under cover since August 2008, on the orders of the public prosecutor in Osnabrück. Out of the 16 suspects arrested, four are from Germany and more arrests will follow, according to German Police. Among the arrested is the leader of the smuggling ring. He is a 44-year-old Tamil known among the diaspora as an ardent supporter of the LTTE,” sources added. The report also stated that the suspect was residing in a small town called Borken in the Federal State North Rhine Westphalia (NRW) where there is a large concentration of Sri Lankan Tamils domiciled in Germany. Warrants have been issued for the arrest of two more Tamils in Germany – from Rhine and Lingen.

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Sex Trafficking2006

Frankfurt, Germany, 2006

Germany DE

After three weeks of captivity and abuse, including multiple rapes, Lucy acted compliant to gain trafficker's trust, then asked to use a cell phone. She called a friend in Finland, who gave her the number of the German police hotline. She called and German police arrived and rescued her. The

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CSEC2011

Redtenbacherstr. 7 69126 Heidelberg, Germany, 2011

Germany DE

Name: Age: 27 - Female Titular head of the brothels was given three years in prison. Name: Age: 26 - Male manager - three years in prison Name: Age: 30 - Male two years and ten months - prison Name: Age: 27 - Male Suspended sentence Name: Age: 22 - Male Suspended Sentence Name: Age: 30 - Male Fined undisclosed amount Location: 4 clubs across Heidelberg, Stuttgart, Fellbach, Berlin A judge has jailed a group of men and women who ran a chain of brothels where more than 20 Romanian women provided ‘flat rate’ sex to customers in circumstances which prosecutors had described as gang-run forced labour. 20 girls have been trafficked from Romania to Germany. The youngest of them was 16 years old and she sometimes had to serve more than 50 clients per night. The were forced to work in brothels in Germany at two separate locations in Fellbach and Heidelberg. Women were forced to work up to 14 hours per day. Customers were offered ‘sex with all the women, as long as you want, as often as you want and how you want’ for a one-off payment of €70 or €100 a day. Over time the traffickers handed over the daily operations and sold the women to brothels in Heidelberg, Berlin-Schönefeld, Wuppertal, Kaiserslautern, Recklinghausen, Barsinghausen, Schifferstadt and Fellbach. For those women who wanted to flee, they were frequently threatened with violence, according to the indictment. 13 suspects were arrested, six more under arrest. The arrests of the originating mainly from Romania, 19 men and women are closely related to the currently in Stuttgart ongoing lawsuit against the operator of the brothel chain Amateur Club "- and was formerly owned by Marcus Eberhardt, the Pforzheim grown Prinz von Anhalt. Women were expected to bring her pimp each week 1000 €. If a John left dissatisfied, a fine of 500 euros was imposed on them. They said the men did not "committed" to enough cost is 50 €. "Of course knew many of the women that they would be working as prostitutes in Germany. But most of them had no idea what that would mean, "said Michael Spandau. The lawyer representing a 29-year-old Romanian woman as co-plaintiff, which will also testify as a witness - a very stressful situation for the women.

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