Copenhagen, Denmark, Denmark
Copenhagen Police received a message from the Lithuanian police through Europol that a Lithuanian woman was being held hostage somewhere in Copenhagen and being forced to prostitute herself. Another two days passed before Copenhagen Police were able to locate the address where she was being held. “We got a description of the building that she was being held in from Europol. With a little local knowledge and some people watching on the street, we discovered the place,” Trine Møller Andersen, who leads the Copenhagen Police’s anti-human trafficking efforts, told Jyllands-Posten newspaper. The woman was found in a wretched, cockroach-infested building. But, according to Andersen, she had not been physically harmed and had been given food and water. When police finally found the woman, she handed them a hand-written note. It read – in halting English – that she was being held as a sex slave, that she could not speak English, and that she needed help.
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